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COMPILED BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL 
BY HENRY G. TARDY 
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CHAPTER I 


GENERAL PROVISIONS. 


Section 1: Name of Municipal Code. Whereas it is necessary 
that the general ordinances of the City of Alameda should be 
amendcd. revised, codified and enacted in the form of a Municipal 
Code and all general ordinances and parts of ordinances of a 
general nature not contained in such Municipal Code repealed, 
it is hereby ordained that this ordinance shall be enacted and 
that it shall be known as The Municipal Code of the City of 
Alameda 


Section 2: Repealing and Saving Clause. All general ordin- 
ances and parts of ordinances of a general nature not herein con- 
tained are hereby repealed; provided, however, that the repeal 
of such ordinances and parts of ordinances, or any of them, shall 
not be construed to abate or affect any suit, action or proceeding 
instituted or pending in any court of this state or other tribunal 
begun prior to the passage of this ordinance, or under any of the 
ordinances so repealed, but all such suits, actions or proceedings 
may be prosecuted to final determination under the laws so re- 
pealed; provided, further, that the repeal of any ordinance or 
parts of ordinances shall not in any wise affect, deny, abridge, 
divest or impair any right, privilege, action or cause of action 
accruing or arising under the ordinances hereby repealed, but such 
right, privilege, action or cause of action accruing or arising shall 


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not in anyway be affected by any of the provisions of this Code 
and shall be governed by the ordinances in effect when the same 
accrued or arose. This ordinance shall in no manner affect any 
ordinance, general.or special, in the nature of a franchise to any 
pubhie utility. ‘This ordinance, known as The Municipal Code of 
the City of Alameda, so far as its provisions are the same in effect 
include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, or joint 
continuation of those ordinances. | 


Section 3: General Rules of Construction of This Code. The 
following rules of construction shall be observed for this and 
every ordinance, unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of 
the council, or the context of the ordinance: 

First. The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive any ordin- 
ance in force before, or at the time when, the ordinance repealed 
took effect. 

Second. The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punish- 
ment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, or any 
suit, prosecution, or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, 
for an offence committed under the ordinance repealed. 

Third. Words importing the singular shall include the plural, 
words importing the plural shall include the singular, and words 
importing the masculine gender shall include females and boards. 

Fourth. The word ‘‘street’’ shall include all public ways, 
alleys, lanes, courts, and sidewalks and those parts of puble 
squares and places which form travelled parts of highways. 


Fifth. The word ‘‘parks’’ and ‘‘playgrounds’’ shall include 
the public lands placed by the Council under the charge of the 
Street Superintendent, Park and Playground Committee of the 
Covneil or a Park Commission, and those parts of public squares 
and places which do not form travelled parts of highways. 

Sixth. The word ‘‘owner’’, applied to a building or land, shall 
as those of previously existing ordinances, shall be construed as a ) 
tenant of the whole or of a part of such building or land. 

Seventh. The word ‘‘tenant’’ or ‘‘occupant’’, applied to a 
building or land, shall include any person who occupies the whole 
or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others. 

Eighth. The word ‘‘person’’ shall include corporations, firm 
or copartnership. 


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Ninth. The word ‘‘officer’’ shall include officers and boards in 
charge of departments and the members of such boards. 


Tenth. Words purporting to give a joint authority to three or 
more officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such 
authority to a majority of such officers or persons. 

Eleventh. Words prohibiting anything from being done, ex- 
cept in accordance with a license or permit, or authority from a 
board or officer, shall be construed as giving such board or officer 
power to license or permit or authorize such things to be done. 


Twelfth. Whenever in this Municipai Code the word ‘‘City’’ 
occurs, it means the City of Alameda, and every department 
‘board and officer, whenever either of them is mentioned in this 
Municipal Code, means a department, board or officer, as the 
case may be, of the City of Alameda. 


Thirteenth. Should any part or parts, provision or provisions 
of this Municipal Code be illegal or unconstitutional, such ille- 
gality or unconstitutionality shall destroy and render null and 
void only the part or provisions so illegal and unconstitutional, 
and all the other parts and provisions of this Municipal Code 
shall be in force and effect so far as may be, as though ‘such 
illegal or unconstitutional part or provision had not been con- 
tained herein. 


Section 4: Publication in Book Form. This ordinance which 
is to be known as ‘‘The Municipal Code of the City of Alameda,”’ 
is hereby ordered to be published in book form by the City Clerk, 
under the supervision of the City Attorney, and such book may 
also include the City Charter and such indices and other matter 
as may be deemed advisable by the City Attorney. 


Section 5: Regular Meetings of Council. The regular nieet- 
ings of the Council of the City of Alameda shall be held in the 
Council Chamber at the City Hall of said city on the first and 
third Tuesdays of each month at 7:30 o’clock, P. M., excepting 
when a meeting day falls upon a holiday, in which case the meet- 
ing shall be held on the next succeeding business day at the 
same hour. 


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CHAPTER II 


OFFICIALS, THEIR DUTIES, SALARIES AND FEES. 


Section 6: Salaries of City Clerk, City Attorney, City Treas- 
urer and Street Superintendent. The salaries of the following 
named officers of the City of Alameda are hereby fixed as follows, 
the amounts being the monthly compensation for all services 
rendered to said City of Alameda by the officers named. 


The City Clerk shall receive one hundred and fifty dollars; 
The City Attorney shall receive one hundred and fifty dollars; 


The Treasurer and ex officio Tax Collector of the City of Ala- - 
meda shall receive two hundred dollars; 


The Street Superintendent shall receive one hundred and fifty 
dollars ; : 

Said salaries shall be paid in arrears for the preceding calendar 
month. 

The salaries herein established shall apply to the terms of office 
of the several officers concerned, next succeeding their respective 
current terms. 


Section 7: Salaries of Members of the Police Department: The 
compensation of the Chief of Police and the officials and members 
of the Police Department of the City of Alameda is hereby fixed 
and established as follows: 

The Chief of Police shall receive $175.00 per month salary ; 

The officials detailed as Detectives shall each receive $125.00 
per month salary; 

The officials detailed as Sergeant shall receive $110.00 per month 
salary ; 

The official detailed as Clerk at the Police office shall receive 
$110.00 per month salary ; 3 

The official detailed as Driver of the Police Patrol shall receive 
$100.00 per month salary. 

Patrolmen during the first year of continuous service in said 
Department shall each receive the sum of $90.00 per month salary ; 
during the second year of continuous service in said Department 
they shall each receive the sum of $95.00 per month salary; and 
during the third and subsequent years of continuous service in 


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said Department they shall each receive the sum of $100.00 per 
month salary. 

Salaries shall be paid in arrears for each calendar month and 
shall be in full of all services performed for the City of Alameda. 


Section 8: Salaries of Officers and Employees of the Fire De- 
partment. The salaries of the following named officers and em- 
ployees of the Fire Department of the City of Alameda are hereby 
fixed as follows, the amounts being the monthly compensation for 
all services rendered by the officers or employees named. 


The Chief Engineer shall receive one hundred and seventy- 
five dollars. 


The First Assistant Engineer shall receive one hundred and 
fifteen dollars; the Second Assistant Engineer shall receive one 
hundred and five dollars; the Engineers of the fire engines shall 
each receive one hundred dollars; Assistant Engineers of the 
fire engines shall each receive ninety-five dollars; Captains shall 
each receive ninety-five dollars; Drivers, first class, shall each 
receive ninety dollars; Drivers, second class, shall each receive 
eighty-five dollars; ‘‘ecall’’ Captains shall each receive twenty 
dollars; Truckmen and Hosemen shall each receive fifteen dollars. 
Salaries shall be paid in arrears for the preceding calendar month. 

Section 9: Salary of the Poundmaster. The compensation of 
the Poundmaster, including the services of himself and deputies 
and the expense of horse and vehicle and keep of all animals ex- 
cept dogs, is hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred and fifty 
dollars per month, payable monthly in arrears for each calendar 
month. 


Section 10: Office of Building Inspector. The office of Build- 
ing Inspector of the City of Alameda is hereby established. Jt 
shall be the duty of said Building Inspector to perform the in- 
spections and duties required by the ordinances of the City of 
Alameda relating to the construction of buildings and the num- 
bering thereof and also relating to the inspection of chimneys 
and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Council. 

Section 11: How Appointed and Tenure. The Building In- 
spector shall be appointed by the Mayor and shall hold office at 
the pleasure of the Council subject to the power of suspension by 
the Mayor as provided by the Charter of the City of Alameda. 


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’ Section 12: Salary of Building Inspector. The salary of the 
Building Inspector is hereby fixed at the sum of one hundred and 
twenty-five dollars per calendar month payable in arrears. 


Section 13: What Building Inspection Fee Includes. When- 
ever a fee has been paid for a building permit no additional or 
other fee shall be required for the inspection of chimneys con- 
structed under said building permit. 


Section 14: Duties of City Engineer. It shall be the duty of 
the City Engineer to give the corners, lines or survey of lots, 
and the proper grade of the sidewalks in front of all buildings, 
blocks, or lots, with plot or certificate of same, when applied to 
for that purpose. And for such service the party requiring such 
work done shall pay all lawful charges for the same. When re- 
quired by the City Council or any city contractor for work in 
said City he shall furnish the lines, grades and measurements 
and calculations for any street or other city work. It shall also 
be his duty when ordered by said Council to place monuments 
as initial points for the purpose of measurements or grades, and 
at such places as said Council may direct, and do and perform 
such other duties as pertain to said office. 


Section 15: Necessity to Keep Records of Surveys. The City 
Engineer shall keep a record of all surveys and measurements 
made under the provisions of this ordinance in a book or books 
to be kept for that purpose. All records of surveys and all eal- 
culation books pertaining to street or other city work, with all 
maps, plans and profiles in which the city can in any manner be 
interested, shall be and remain the property of the city, and shall ~ 
be kept in a secure place open to public inspection. And all such 
books, plans, maps and profiles shall be carefully preserved by 
the City Engineer and transmitted to his successor in office. 


Section 16: Salary of City Engineer. The salary of the City 
Engineer for services rendered to the City of Alameda is hereby 
‘fixed at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month payable 
monthly in arrears for the preceding calendar month. Said 
salary is in addition to his right to collect the fees and charges 
hereinafter provided. 


Section 17: Fees and Charges Allowable. The fees and 
charges of the City Engineer for setting stakes, including plot 


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and certificate of any lot or block above high water mark in the 
City of Alameda, shall be as follows—distance referring to street 
frontage: 


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Canned root. .lOt—4. stakes... 0. bale oo ccscweeesesws 9.00 


For setting grade stakes in front of any lot, 2 stakes, $2.50 
each. For each additional stake, $1.00. For setting grade stakes 
for full block, $20.00. 

Kor surveys and engineering for street improvements the 
charges shall be as follows, to wit: 

For running all lines and setting all stakes necessary for the 
grading and curbing and macadamizing or planking or paving 
of any street to the official grade, including certificate and record 
of the work when completed at the rate of eight (8) cents per 
linear foot. | 

For running lines and setting the necessary stakes for the 
curbing and macadamizing or paving of any street already 
graded to the official grade, including certificate and record, at 
the rate of eight (8) cents per linear foot provided, that where 
said Engineer has received fees for grading the rate for macad- 
amizing only shall be at the rate of one (1) cent per linear foot. 

For giving lines and grades for sewers, at the rate of five (5) 
cents per linear foot. 


For plan and profile, in private contracts, Five (5) Dollars. 

The term linear foot shall be deemed to include both sides of 
any street (where work extends beyond the center thereof) and 
the rates charged shall include the furnishing of stakes used. 

The official fees of the City Engineer for surveying and setting 
stakes for the work of paving and bituminizing roadways shall be 
fifteen cents per running foot which fees shall include the cost of 
all preliminary surveys, profiles, mapping and estimates. 

For all work and services rendered by the City Engineer in 
connection with proceedings under that certain act of the Legis- 
lature of the State of California entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for 
the lighting of public streets, lanes, alleys, courts, and places 
in municipalities, and for the assessment of the costs and ex- 
penses thereof upon the property benefitted thereby,’’ approved 


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March 21, 1905, the City Engineer shall receive as an official fee 
one (1) cent per front foot of street improved thereunder. | 

The fees of the City Engineer for preliminary surveys and 
estimates of quantities and plans are hereby fixed as follows, 
said fees to be in addition to those allowed by ordinance, and to 
be a charge against the property in front of which said surveys 
are made and included in assessment for the work. On grading 
by cubic yard, five cents per linear foot measured along the 
center line of the street; on grading by square foot one cent per 
linear foot, measured in the same way; on macadamizing by 
square foot, one and one half cents per linear foot, measured in 
the same way; on paving by square foot, one and one half cents 
per linear foot, measured in the same way, on sidewalk, three 
cents per linear foot of sidewalk; on curbing, one half cent per 
linear foot of curbing; on crosswalks, one half cent per linear 
foot of crosswalk; on culverts, one half cent per linear foot; on 
sewers one cent per linear foot of sewer; for each plan accom- 
panying the above, five (5) dollars; for special specifications, one 
fourth of one per cent of cost of work as shown by contractor’s 
accepted bid. No additional charge shall be made for preparing 
and filing certificates of quantities and estimates. For assess- 
ment diagram and final certificate five (5) Dollars. Resetting 
of stakes disturbed or destroyed by the contractor shall be at the 
expense of said contractor. 


Section 18: Posting of Rates and Fees. The foregoing rates 
shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the office of the City 
Engineer. 


Section 19: Official Bonds Required. The officers of the City 
of Alameda hereinafter in this section named, before entering 
upon the duties of their respective offices, shall each execute to 
said City of Alameda a bond in the penal sum hereinafter men- 
tioned next to the name of such officer, which bond shall be 
conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such 
officer including in the same bond the duties of all offices of which 
he is made the ex-officio incumbent of the Charter of the City of 
Alameda: The said officers and the penal sums of their 
respective bonds shall be as follows, to wit: 

Mayor in the penal sum of Five Thousand Dollars. 

City Clerk in the penal sum of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars. 


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Treasurer and Tax Collector in the penal sum of Thirty Thous- 
and Dollars. 

City Attorney in the penal sum of Three Thousand Dollars. 

Anditor and Assessor in the penal sum of Five Thousand 
Dollars. ; 

Street Superintendent in the penal sum of ‘Twenty-five 
Hundred Dolars. 

City Engineer in the penal sum of Twenty-five Hundred 
Dollars. 

Chief of Police in the penal sum of Three Thousand Dollars. 

Building Inspector in the penal sum of One Thousand Dollars. 


Section 20: Application of State Law to Official Bonds. All 
the provisions of any law of this State relating to the official 
bonds of officers, existing at the time of the presentation of any 
of the bonds herein mentioned, shall apply to such bonds except 
as otherwise provided in the Charter of the City of Alameda. 


Section 20a. Salary of Auditor and Assessor. The salary of 
the Auditor and Assessor, for acting in both capacities, is hereby 
fixed at the sum of Two Hundred (200) Dollars per calendar 
month payable in arrears. (Ord. No. 3, N. 8.) 


CHAPTER III. 
FINANCE, TAXATION AND ASSESSMENTS. 


Article I—DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY TREASURY. 


Section 21: Necessity For Demands to Be Presented For Ap- 
proval. Every demand against the City which is subject to the 
action or approval of the Council shall be presented to the board, 
commission or officer to whose department such demand relates 
who shall indorse upon it their approval or rejection as provided 
by the charter of said city. Upon such approval said demand 
shall be presented to the Council of which the Finance Committee 
shall examine such demand and shall indorse thereon its approval 
or rejection by the concurrence of at least two of its members, 
or such recommendation respecting such demand as said com- 
mittee may see fit. 


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Section 22: Form, Verification and Filing of Demands. 
Every demand which is subject to the action or approval of the 
Council shall be verified as hereinafter provided and shall be 
made out substantially in the form approved and adopted by the 
Council therefor. Every such demand shall be filed with the 
Clerk at least four days prior to the time of the meeting of the 
Council at which action upon such demand is asked, and no 
demand shall be allowed on the day upon which it is filed. Every 
such demand shall be verified by the affidavit of the person 
making the demand or by some person in his behalf and shall be 
itemized, giving names, dates and particular services rendered, 
or work done, number of days engaged, supplies or materials 
furnished, to whom, and quantity and price thereof. 


Section 23: Manner of Voting On Demands. All votes of the 
Council allowing or approving any demand or demands for 
money or for the payment of money, shall be taken by ayes and 
noes, which shall be entered in the minutes of the Council. 

Upon the allowance or approval of a demand by the Council, 
and where necessary, by the Mayor, the Clerk shall certify there- 
on the fact, date and amount of such allowance or approval, 
shall attest the same with his signature, and shall transmit such 
demand to the auditor, who shall, in case he allows such demand, 
indorse upon it ‘‘allowed,’’ together with the amount for which 
it is allowed, from what fund, date, and number of the warrant, 
and shall in attestation thereof affix his signature. He shall upon 
application. of the claimant detach from the demand and deliver 
to him the memorandum forming part therecf which when 
executed by the auditor shall constitute the warrant on the 
treasury. The auditor shall file the demand in his office. 


Section 24: Certification of Demands By Library Trustees 
And Electricity Board. The Secretary and Assistant Secretary 
of the Board of Library Trustees and the Secretary of the Board 
of Electricity are each hereby authorized to certify the action of 
their respective boards on demands presented thereto and to 
administer oaths and affirmations for the verification of said 
demands, © | 

Section 25: Certification of Demands By Street Superinten- 


dent. The Street Superintendent and his deputy where such 
deputy exists are hereby authorized and it is made their duty to 


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certify all demands in cases where they have supervision, before 
the same are presented to the Council, and they are hereby author- 
ized to administer oaths and affirmations for the verification of 
such demands. 


Section 26: Certification of Demands By Police And Fire 
Departments. The Chief of Police and the Chief Engineer or 
Assistant Chief Engineer of the Fire Department are hereby 
authorized and it is made their duty to certify all demands pre- 
ferred on account of their respective departments and they are 
authorized to administer oaths and affirmations for the verific- 
ation of such demands. 


Article 2, SYSTEM OF ASSESSMENTS, LEVY AND COL- 
LECTION OF CITY TAXES. 


Section 27: City Assessor How Governed. The Assessor of 
the City of Alameda, in making assesment of city taxes shall be 
governed by the provisions of this ordinance. 


Section 28. Adoption of Section 3627 Political Code. For the 
purposes of this ordinance, Section 3627 of the Political Code of 
the State of California is hereby adopted and made a part of this 
ordinance. 


Section 29: What Property Assessable And How Assesment 
Made. All franchises granted by the authority of the City of 
Alameda must be assessed in Alameda, and all franchises granted 
by other authority shall be assessed in Alameda only for the pro- 
portion thereof within said City of Alameda. All other taxable 
property shall be assessed in Alameda if situated in Alameda. 
Lands shall be assessed in parcels or sub-divisions not exceeding 
six hundred and forty acres each. The Assessor must between 
the first Mondays in March and August, in each year, ascertain 
the names of all taxable inhabitants, and all property in Alameda, 
subject to taxation, except such as is required to be assessed by 
the State Board of Equalization, and must assess such property 
to the persons by whom it was owned or claimed, or in whose 
possession or control it was at twelve o’clock M., of the first 
Monday of March, next preceding; but no mistake in the name of 
the owner or supposed owner of real property, shall render the 
assessment thereof invalid. In assessing solvent credits, not 


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secured by mortgage or trust deed, a reduction therefrom shall be 
made of debts due to bona fide residents of this State. 


Section 30: Power of Assessor To Exact Statement of Assess- 
able Property. The Assessor shall have power to exact from 
every person a statement under oath, setting forth specifically 
all the real and personal property owned by such person; or in 
his possession or under his control, at twelve o’clock M., on the 
first Monday in March. Such statement shall be in writing 
showing separately: 

(1) All property belonging to, claimed by, or in the posses- 
sion, or under the control or management of such person. 

(2) All property belonging to, claimed by, or in the posses- 
sion, or under the control or management of any firm of which 
such person is a member. 

(3) <All property belonging to, or claimed by, or in the pos- 
session, or under the control or management of any corporation 
of which such person is president, secretary, cashier or managing 
agent. | 

(4) An exact description of all lands in parcels or sub-divi- 
sions, not exceeding six hundred and forty acres each, improve- 
ments and personal property, including all vessels, steamers, and 
other water craft, and all taxable State, county, city, or other 
municipal, or public bonds and the taxable bonds of any person, 
firm, or corporation, and deposits of money, gold dust, or other 
valuables, and the names of the persons with whom such deposits 
are made, and the places in which they may be found, all mort- 
gages, deeds of trust, contracts, and other obligations by which a 
debt is secured and the property in the town affected thereby. 


(5) All solvent credits, unsecured by deed of trust, mortgage 
or other lien on real or personal property, due or owing to such 
person, or any firm of which he is a member, or due or owing to 
any corporation of which he is president, secretary, cashier or 
managing agent, deducting from the sum total of such credits 
such debts only, unsecured by trust deed, mortgage,or other len 
on real or personal property, as may be owing by such person, 
firm or corporation, to bona fide residents of this State. No debt 
shall be so deducted unless the statement shows the amount of 
such debt as stated under oath in aggregate; provided, in case 
of banks the statement is not required to show the debt in detail, 


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or to whom it is owing, but the Assessor shall have the privilege 
of examining the books of such banks to verify said statement. 
Whenever one member of a firm, or one of the proper officers of a 
corporation, has made a statement showing the property of the 
firm, or corporation, another member of the firm or corporation 
or another officer need not include such property in the state- 
ment made by him; but his statement must show the name of the 
person or officer who made the statement in which said property 
is ineluded. 


Section 31: Duty of Council to Furnish Assessor Blank Forms 
of statements—Form of Statement. The Council must furnish 
the Assessor with blank forms of the statements provided for in 
the preceding section, affixing thereto an affidavit which must be 
Co) a eS ES 20) WR BRI em gr en do swear 
that I am a resident of The City of Alameda (or other place 
- naming it), that the above list contains a full and correct state- 
ment of all property subject to taxation in the City of Alameda, 
which I, or any firm of which I am a member, or any corporation. 
association or company of which I am President, Cashier, Secre- 
tary or Managing Agent, owned, claimed, possessed or con- 
trolled at twelve o’clock M., on the first Monday in March last, 
and which is not already assessed this year; and that I have not 
in any manner whatsoever transferred or disposed of any pro- 
perty or placed any property out of said Alameda or my posses- 
sion, for the purpose of avoiding any assessment upon the same, 
or of making this statement, and that the debts therein stated 
as owing by me are owing to bona fide residents of this State or 
to firms or corporations doing business in this State.’’ The affi- 
davit to the statement on behalf of a firm or corporation, must 
state the principal place of business of the firm or corporation. 
and in other respects must conform substantially to the preceding 
form. 


Section 32: Manner of Filling Out Statement. The Assessor 
may fill out the statement at the time he presents it, or he may 
deliver it to the person and require him, within an appointed 
time, to return the same to him, properly filled out. 


Section 33: Power to Require Information For Use in Assess- 
ment—Penalty For Failure to Furnish It. The Assessor shall 
have power: 


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First—To require any person found within the City of 
Alameda to make and subscribe an affidavit giving his name, 
place of residence, or place of business, and whether he is the 
owner of any taxable property. 


Second—To subpoena and examine any person in relation to 
any statement furnished to him or which discloses property which 
is assessable in the City of Alameda. Every person who shall 
refuse to furnish the statement hereinbefore required, or to make 
and subscribe such affidavit respecting his name or place ot 
residence, or to appear and testify when requested to do so by 
the Assessor, as above provided, shall, for each and every refusal, 
and so often as the same is repeated, forfeit to the City of 
Alameda the sum of one hundred dollars, in gold-coin of the 
United States, to be recovered in an action brought in its name 
by the ‘Assessor in any Justice’s Court. All moneys recovered by 
the Assessor under the provisions of this section must by him be 
paid into the Treasury of the City of Alameda. | 


section 34: Effect of Refusal to Furnish Assessment Inform- 
ation. If any person, after demand made by the Assessor 
neglects or refuses to give under oath, the statement herein pro- 
vided for, or to comply with other requirements of this article, 
the Assessor must note the refusal on the assessment book, oppos- 
ite the name of such person, and must make an estimate of the 
value of such property of such person, and the Assessor must 
transmit on or before the first Monday in August of each year, 
to the Council a verified report in writing, separate from the 
assessment roll, containing a complete list of all persons who 
refuse or neglect to furnish a statement of their property as here- 
in provided for, or to comply with the requirements of this 
article, the amount of the assessment upon the property of such 
persons, with a statement of the particular facts, if any, upon 
which the assessment has been made, and the valuation of the 
property, so assessed, ascertained. The Council must investigate 
and. inquire into all assessments and values so fixed by the 
Assessor, as prescribed by this section, and for that purpose must 
require each taxpayer, affected by such assessment and valuation, 
to make a statement under oath, within ten days from making . 
order requiring such statement, setting forth specifically, all the 
property owned or controlled, or in the possession of such tax- 


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payer on the first Monday in March. If any taxpayer, after 
demand made by the Council shall neglect or refuse to make and 
deliver to the said Council the statement, duly verified, herein 
provided for, or to comply with the other requirements of this 
article, the said Council, sitting as a Board of Equalization must 
increase such assessment and valuation to such an amount as the 
said Board shall deem just; but the value fixed by the Assessor 
must not in any case, be reduced by the Council. 


Section 35: Absent or Unknown Owners—Property Held On 
Consignment—If the owner or claimant of any property, not 
listed by another person, is absent or unknown, the Assessor must 
make an estimate of the value of such property. 

All personal property consigned for sale to any person within 
this State from any place out of this State must be assessed as 
other property. 


Section 36: How Assessed Against Absent Owner. If the 
name of the absent owner is known to the Assessor, or if it 
appears of record in the office of the County Recorder where the 
property is situated, the property must be assessed to such name. 
If unknown to the Assessor, and it does not appear of record as 
aforesaid, the property must be assessed to unknown owners. 


Section 37: How Assessed When Property Held in Represent- 
ative Capacity. When a person is assessed as agent, trustee, 
bailee, guardian, executor, or administrator, his representative 
designation must be added to his name and the assessment 
entered upon a separate line from his individual assessment. 


Section 38: How Assessed When Owned By Firm or Cor- 
poration. The property of every firm or corporation must be 
assessed in the name of the firm or corporation. 


Section 39 How Assessed When Owned By An Estate. The 
undistributed or unpartitioned property of deceased persons may 
be assessed to the heirs, guardians, executors, or administrators; 
and a payment of taxes made by either binds all the parties in 
interest for their equal proportions. 


Section 40: Effect Where Property Willfully Concealed or 
Removed. Any property willfully concealed, removed, trans- 
ferred or misrepresented by the owner or agent thereof to evade 


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taxation, upon discovery must be assessed not exceeding ten 
times its value, and the assessment so made must not be reduced 
by the Council. 


Section 41: Effect Where Property Has Escaped Last Assess- 
ment. Any property discovered by the Assessor to have escaped 
assessment for the last preceding year, if such property is in the 
ownership or under the control of the same person who owned 
or controlled it for such preceding year, may be assessed at 
double its value. 


Section 42: Duty of Assessor to Prepare Assessment Books— 
What to contain. The Assessor must prepare an assessment 
book, with appropriate headings in which must be listed all tax- 
_ able property within the City, and in which must be specified in 
separate columns, under the appropriate head: 

(1) The name of the person to whom the property is assessed. 

(2) land, by metes and bounds, or other description sufficient 
to identify it, giving an estimate of the number of acres (not 
exceeding in each and every tract, six hundred and forty acres), 
locality anl improvements thereon. 

(3) City and town lots, number of lot and block and improve- 
ments thereon. 

(4) <All personal property showing the number, kind, amount 
and quality; but a failure to enumerate in detail such personal 
property does not invalidate the assessment. 

(5) The cash value of real estate other than city lots. 

(6) The cash value of improvements on such real estate. 

(7) The cash value of city lots. 

(8) The cash value of improvements on city lots. 

(9) The cash value of improvements on real estate assessed to 
persons other than owners of the real estate. 

(10) The cash value of all personal property exclusive of 
money. . 

(11) The amount of money. 

(12) The total value of all property. The assessment of the 
franchise, roadway, roadbeds, rails and rolling stock of any rail- 
road within said city and apportioned to this city by the Board 
of Supervisors, and also such other apportionments of such fran- 
chises, roadways, roadbeds, rails and rolling stock, as may be 
made by such Board, and furnished to him for the purpose of 


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taxation. Taxable improvements owned by any person, firm, 
association, or corporation, located upon land exempt from tax- 
ation, shall as to the manner of assessment be assessed as other 
real estate upon the assessment book. No value shall, however, 
be assessed against the exempt land nor under any circumstances 
shall the land be charged with or become responsible for the as- 
sessment made against any taxable improvements located 
thereon. 


(13) When any property, except that owned by a railroad or 
other quasi-public corporation, is subject to, or affected by a 
mortgage, deed of trust, contract, or other obligation by which a 
debt 1s secured, he must enter in the proper column, the value of 
such security and deduct the same. In entering assessments con- 
taining solvent credits subject to deduction, he must enter in the 
proper column, the value of the debts, entitled to exemption, and 
deduct the same. In making the deduction from the total value 
of the property assessed as above directed, he must enter the 
remainder in the column provided for the total of all property for 
taxation. Hach franchise must be entered upon the assessment 
book without combining the same with other property or the 
valuation thereof. 


Section 43: When Assessment Book Must Be Completed. On 
or before the first Monday of August, in each year, the Assessor 
must complete his assessment book. He or his deputies must 
make and subscribe an affidavit in the assessment book to be 
BuUStaniiaity as ollows : shir owesgt othe tel ies ly ute votnl)< Assessor 
(or Deputy Assessor, as the case may be), of the City of Alameda, 
do swear that between the first Monday in March and the first 
Monday in August, Nineteen hundred and ............:..... I 
have made diligent inquiry and examination to ascertain all the 
property within the City of Alameda, subject to assessment 
by me, and that the same has been assessed on the assessment 
book equally and uniformly, according to the best of my judg- 
ment, information and belief, at its full cash value; and that I 
have faithfully complied with all the duties imposed upon the 
Assessor under the revenue laws, and that I have not imposed any 
unjust or double assessments through malice or ill will or other- 
wise nor allowed anyone to escape a just and equal assessment 
through favor or reward or otherwise.’’ But the failure 


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to make or subscribe such an affidavit, or any affidavit will not 
in any manner affect the validity of the assessment. 


Section 44: Duty to Prepare Index to Assessment Book— 
Where to Be Shown. The Assessor must prepare an index to the 
assessment book, which must show the name of the tax payer, and 
each page whereon his assessment appears, and such index shall 
be in any suitable form adopted by the Assessor for that purpose. 


Section 45: Delivery of Assessment Book to City Clerk—Pub- 
lication of Meeting of Board of Equalization. As soon as com- 
pleted, the assessment book must be delivered to the Clerk of the 
City of Alameda, who must immediately give notice thereof, and 
of the time the Board of Equalization will meet to equalize assess- 
ments, by publication in the official newspaper of the city, for five 
days, and in the meantime the assessment book must remain in 
his office, for the inspection of all persons interested. 


Section 46: Description of Land Already Described—Effect 
Where Several Claimants. Lands once described on the assess- 
ment book need not be described a second time, but any person 
claiming the same, and desiring to be assessed therefor, may have 
his name inserted with that of the person to whom such land is 
assessed. | 


seciion 47: Liability of Assessor and Sureties on His Bond. 
The Assessor and his sureties are lable on his official bond for all 
taxes or property, within the City of Alameda, which through his 
willful failure or neglect are unassessed. 


Section 48: Right of Taxpayer to Call Attention of Council 
to Escaped Assessment—Suit on Assessor’s Bond. Any taxpayer 
who shall have knowledge of any property that has escaped tax- 
ation, as provided in the preceding section, may file with the 
Council an affidavit setting forth the fact that such property has 
through the willful failure or neglect of the Assessor, escaped 
taxation, together with a description of the property as near as — 
such taxpayer may be able to give, whereupon said Council shall 
direct the City Attorney to commence an action on the Assessor’s 
bond for the amount of taxes lost from such willful failure or 
neglect. On the trial of such action, the value of the property 
unassessed being shown, judgment for the amount of taxes that 
should have been collected thereon must be entered. 


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Section 49: Meeting of Council As a Board of Equalization. 
The Council shall meet at their usual place of holding meetings 
on the first Monday in September of each year, at ten o’clock in 
the forenoon of said day, and sit as a Board of Equalization, and 
shall continue in session from day to day until all returns of the 
Assessor have been received; and on the third Tuesday in Sep- 
tember of each year shall levy upon the assessed valuation of the 
property of said city a rate of taxation upon each one hundred 
dollars of valuation, which shall be entered upon their minutes. 


Section 50: Power of Board of Equalization to Change Assess- 
ments—How to Be Done. The Board of Equalization has power, 
after causing the City Clerk to give the notice thereof hereinafter 
provided for to increase or lower any assessment contained in the 
assessment book, so as to equalize the assessment of the property 
contained in said book, and make the assessment conform to the 
true value of such property in money. 

The said notice shall be given in the following manner: The 
Clerk of said City of Alameda, shall, at least three (38) days 
before action taken by the Board of Equalization cause to be 
mailed, through the United States Mail, postage prepaid, 
to the owner or owners of any parcel or parcels of land 
or of any other property described on the assessment 
book, or to the respective agent or agents of such owner or 
owners, a printed or written notice, describing such property by 
some appropriate designation, stating that an increase or 
decrease as the case may be, is proposed to be made on the value 
of such property as appears on such assessment book, and desig- 
nating therein the day fixed by the Board of Equalization for the 
hearing and investigation of such matter. Such notice shall be 
addressed to each of such owners or their agents at their respec- 
tive places of address, where known, and, if unknown, then to the 
Post Office nearest to such land or property the assessed value 
of which is proposed to be increased or decreased. 


Section 51: Necessity For Application For Reduction of Valu- 
ation. No reduction must be made in the valuation of property, 
unless the party affected thereby, or his agent, makes and files 
with the Board a written application therefor, verified by his 
oath, showing the facts upon which it is claimed such reduction 
should be made. 


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Section 52: Necessity For Evidence to Make Reduction. Be- 
fore the Board grants the application, or makes any reduction 
applied for, it must first examine under oath, the person or agent 
making the application, touching the value of the property of 
such person. No reduction must be made unless the party or the 
agent making the application attends and answers all questions 
pertinent to the inquiry. 


Section 53: Right of Board to Subpoena Witnesses. Upon the 
hearing of the application the Board may subpoena such wit- 
nessse, hear and take such evidence in relation to the subject 
pending, as in its discretion it may deem proper. During the ses- 
sion of the Board the Assessor or any deputy whose testimony is 
needed, must be present and may take any statement or introduce 
or examine witnesses on questions before the Board. 


Section 54: General Powers of Board of Equalization. .The 
Board shall have power to hear complaints and to correct, 
modify, or strike out any assessment, upon notice to the party 
whose assessment is to be raised, as hereinbefore provided. Dur- 
ing the session of the Board, it may direct the Assessor to assess 
any taxable property that has escaped assessment, or to add to 
the amount, number or quantity of property when a false or 
incomplete lst has been rendered; and to make and enter the’ 
new assessments (at the same time. cancelling previous entries), 
when any assessment made by him is deemed by the Board so 
incomplete as to render doubtful the collection of the tax; but 
the Clerk must notify all persons interested, by letter deposited 
in the Post Office or express, post paid, and addressed to the per- 
son interested, at least three days before action taken, of the day 
fixed when the matter will be investigated. 


Section 55: City Clerk to Keep Record of Changes Made By 
Board. The City Clerk must record in a book to be kept for that 
purpose, all changes, corrections, and orders made by the Board, 
and during its session, or as soon as possible after its adjourn- 
ment, must enter upon the assessment book all changes’ and 
corrections made by the Board. It shall not be necessary to make 
a duplicate assessment book. The City Auditor shall compute - 
all delinquent taxes and penalties therefor and charge the Tax 
Collector therewith. The Clerk must attach to the assessment 
book the following affidavit : 


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eT a Pe Berks toa Oy ae OP Rake «Tyas do swear that, as Clerk of 
the City of Alameda, I have kept correct minutes of all the acts 
of the Board of Equalization touching alterations in the assess- 
ment book that all alterations agreed to or directed to be 
made, have been made and entered in the book; that no 
changes or alterations have been made therein except 
those authorized, andt hat he foregoing is the assessment 
roll of said city for taxes levied for the current year.’’ 


Section 56: Determination of Rate of City Taxes. On the 
third Tuesday of September of each year, the Council shall deter- 
mine the rate of City taxes to be levied and collected upon the 
assessed valuation of the property appearing on the assessment 
book; which, after allowing one and one half per cent (114%) of 
the assessed valuation, for delinquencies, must be sufficient to 
raise the necessary revenue for the City of Alameda; provided, 
however, the same for general revenue purposes shall not exceed 
the limit of taxation provided for in the charter of the City of 
Alameda, and the provisions of the law in relation to the same. 
In fixing such rate the Conucil shall fix the same by designating 
the number of cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) of pro- 
perty, specifying the portion of the whole, which shall belong 
to each particular fund of the City, and designating also the 
portion thereof belonging to each special purpose or special 
bonded indebtedness of the City. Having determined on the 
whole rate to be levied, the Council shall then levy the tax to 
provide for raising the necessary revenue of the City for the fiscal 
vear. 


Section 57: Effect of Tax As a Judgment and Lien. Every 
tax due upon real property is a lien against the property 
assessed ; and every tax due upon improvements upon real estate 
assessed to others than the owner of the real estate, is a lien upon 
the land and improvements. Every tax due upon personal pro- 
perty is a len upon the real property of the owner thereof. 
Every tax has the effect of a judgment against the person, and 
every lien created by this ordinance has the lien created by this 
ordinance has the force and effect of an execution duly levied 
against all property of the delinquent; the judgment is not satis- 
fied nor the lien removed until the taxes are paid or the property 
sold for the payment thereof. The several liens herein provided 


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for attach as of the first Ioipa act of March of each year at twelve 
o’clock, noon. 


Section 58: When Assessment Book Is to Be Delivered to City 
Auditor.The Council shall then deliver the assessment book to the 
City Auditor, who shall compute and carry out the amount of 
tax so levied upon each parcel of property in said assessment book 
contained. The correct list for each tax shall be the assessment 
book for said tax for said year. The Auditor must then compute 
and enter into a separate money column in the assessment book 
the respective sums, in dollars and cents, rejecting the fractions 
of a cent, to be paid as a tax on the property therein enumerated, 
and segregate and place in the proper columns of the book the 
respective amounts due in installments, as hereinafter provided, 
and foot up the column, showing the total amount of such taxes 
and the columns of total value of property in the City as corrected 
under the direction of the Board of Equalization. 


Section 59: When Corrected Assessment Book is to Be Deliv- 
ered to Tax Collector. At least five days before the second 
Monday in October, the City Auditor must deliver the corrected 
assessment book to the Tax Collector, with an affidavit attached 
thereto, and by him subscribed as follows: 

iS EN ieee aa MR REE EASA es kee , Auditor of the City of Alameda, 
do swear that I have corrected the assessment book of taxable 
property in Alameda and made it to conform to the requirements 
of the Board of Equalization, that I have reckoned the respective 
sums due as taxes, and have added up the columns of valuation, 
taxes and acreage, as required by law.’’ On delivering the assess- 
ment book to the Tax Collector, the Auditor must charge the Tax 
Collector with the full amount of the taxes levied. 


Section 60: Publication of Notice When Taxes Shall Become 
Delinquent—What Notice Should Contain. Within ten days 
after the recept of the assessment book, the Tax Collector must 
publish a notice for six (6) successive days in the official news- 
paper of said City specifying: 

That the taxes on all personal property secured by real 
property, and one-half of the taxes on all real property, will be 
due and payable on the second Monday in October, and will be 
delinquent on the last Monday in November next thereafter, at 
six o’clock P. M., and that fifteen per cent will be added to the 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 27 


amount thereof, unless paid prior thereto, and that if said one- 
half be not paid before the last Monday in April next thereafter, 
at six o’clock P. M., an additional five per cent will be added 
thereto. That the remaining one-half of the taxes on all real 
property will be payable on and after the first Monday in January 
next, and will be delinquent on the last Monday in April next 
thereafter, at six o’clock P. M., and that unless paid prior there- 
to, five per cent will be added to the amount thereof. 

That all taxes may be paid at the time the first installment, as 
herein provided, is due and payable. 

The times and places at which payment of taxes may be made. 


All taxes shall be due and payable at the times and in the 
manner specified in this subdivision. 


Section 61: Duty of Tax Collector to Give Receipt—and Form 
Thereof. He must give a receipt to the person paying any tax, 
or any part of any tax, specifying the amount of the assessment 
and the tax, or the part of tax, paid, and the amount remaining 
unpaid, if any, with a description of the property assessed; pro- 
vided, that the receipt for the last installment of taxes may refer, 
by number or any other intelligent manner, to the receipt given for 
the first installment of taxes, in lieu of a description of the pro- 
perty assessed. 


Section 62: When Taxes Become Delinquent—Effect of Delin- 
quency. On the last Monday in November of each year, at six 
o’clock P. M., all taxes then unpaid, except the last installment 
of the real property taxes, are delinquent and thereafter the Tax 
Collector must collect, for the use of the City of Alameda, an 
addition of fifteen per cent thereon; provided, that if they be 
not paid before the last Monday in April next succeeding, at six 
o’clock P. M., he shall collect an addition of five per cent thereon. 
On the last Monday of April of each year at six o’clock Dany all 
the unpaid portion of the remaining one-half of the taxes on all 
real property are delinquent, and thereafter the Tax Collector 
must collect for the use of the City of Alameda, an addition of 
five per cent thereon; provided that the entire tax on any real 
property may be paid at the time the first installment as’ above 
provided is due and payable; and provided further, that the taxes 
on all personal property unsecured by real property, shall be due 


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and payable immediately after the assessment of said personal 
property is made. 


Section 63: Right to Pay Tax Claimed As Void Under Protest 
—KEffect of Such Payment. At any time after the assessment 
book has been received by the Tax Collector, and the taxes have 
become payable, the owner of any property assessed therein who 
may claim that the assesment is void in whole or in part, may pay 
the tax thereon to the Tax Collector under protest, which protest 
shall be in writing, and shall specify whether the whole assess- 
ment is claimed to be void, or if a part only, what portion, and in 
either case the ground upon which such claims are founded. And 
when so paid under protest, the payment shall be in no ease 
regarded as a voluntary payment, and such owner may at any 
time within six months after such payment bring an action 
against the City of Alameda in the Superior Court, to recover 
back the tax so paid under protest; and if it shall be adjudged 
that the assessment or any part thereof referred to in the protest 
was void on the ground specified in the protest, judgment shall be 
entered against said City therefor. 


Section 64: Right to Pay Taxes On Particular Lot or Piece 
Separate From Whole Assessment. The taxes upon any particular 
lot, piece or parcel of land contained in any assessment may be 
paid separately from the whole assessment, if such lot, piece or 
parcel has a separate valuation on the assessment book, by paying 
the amount of City taxes due on such lot, piece or parcel of land 
with a proper proportion of the amounts due as tax on personal 
property and penalties if any. The Tax Collector shall make an 
entry on the margin of the Assessment book, showing what certain 
property has been released by the payment of taxes as herein pro- 
vided together with the amounts of such taxes separately and 
specifically set forth. 


Section 65: When Unsecured Personal Property Must Be As- 
sessed. All personal property unsecured by real property must 
be assessed by the Assessor on or before the first Monday in June 
of each year. 


Section 66: How Taxes On Unsecured Personal Property Are 
to Be Collected. Taxes on all personal property when no real 
estate is liable therefor, and on all property, when in the opinion 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 29 


of the Assessor, said taxes are not a lien upon real property suffi- 
cient to secure the payment of the taxes, must be collected as 
provided in the next section. Taxes on all assessments of, posses- 
sion of, claim to or right to the possession of land, shall be imme- 
diately due and payable upon assessment, and shall be collected 
by the Assessor of the City of Alameda as provided in the next 
section. 


Section 67: Right of Assessor to Collect Taxes and Enforce 
Same By Seizure of Personal Property. At the time of making 
the assessment for any of the taxes mentioned in the next fore- 
going section of this ordinance or at any time until the delivery 
of the assessment book to the Tax Collector, the Assessor of the 
City of Alameda shall collect such taxes from all persons assessed. 
To enforce such collection the Assessor may seize and sell any per- 
sonal property owned by the person against whom the tax is 
assessed in the manner provided in Sections 3791, 3792, 3793, 
3/494, 3795 and 3796 of the Political Code of the State of Cali- 
fornia, which sections are hereby made a part of this article. 

At any time after the delivery of the assessment book to the 
Tax Collector, he is hereby empowered to collect any of the taxes 
mentioned in the next foregoing section of this article in the same 
manner as herein provided for the Assessor. 


Section 68: How Amount of Taxes Ascertained Where Rate 
Not Yet Fixed. The Assessor shall be governed as to the amount 
of taxes to be collected on personal property, by the rate of tax- 
ation for City Taxes in Alameda of the previous year, if the rate 
for the current year has not been fixed at the time of collection. 


Section 69: Necessity to Show Payments on Assessment Book. 
The Assessor must, as soon as the ‘‘ Assessment Book’’ for the 
year is completed, note opposite the names of each person from 
whom taxes have been received, the fact and the amounts thereof. 


Section 70: Personal Property Tax Receipts—Form of. Re- 
ceipts must be issued for personal property taxes from a stub 
book, having the stubs numbered the same as the receipts; such 
stub book shall have a line for the name of the person assessed, 
the amount of the assessment, the rate collected, lines for the 
items assessed for collection, the total amount, the date of collec- 
tion and the name of the deputy making the collection. Such 


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blank personal property tax receipt books shall be furnished for 
such purposes by the City of Alameda, and all unused receipts 
must be turned in by the Assessor with his settlement for per- 
sonal property taxes, which settlement shall be made when the 
Assessment Book is turned over to the Tax Collector. 


Section 71: Duty to Compare Assessment Book With Delin- 
quent List... The Tax Collector must on the third Monday of 
May, attend at the office of the City Auditor with the delinquent 
list, and the Auditor must then carefully compare the list with 
the assessment of persons and property not marked “‘paid’’ on 
the assessment book, and when taxes have been paid must note 
the fact in the appropriate column in the assessment book. 


Section 72: Oath of Tax Collector to Tax Payments Made. 
The Auditor must then administer an oath to the Tax Collector, to 
be written and subscribed in the delinquent list, that every person 
and all property assessed in the delinquent list, on which taxes 
have been paid have been credited in the list with such payment. 


Section 73: Settlement of Auditor And Tax Collector. The 
Auditor must then foot up the amount of taxes remaining unpaid 
and eredit the Tax Collector with the-amount, and have a final 
settlement with him. And the delinquent list must remain on file 
in the Tax Collector’s office. 


Section 74: Oath of Tax Collector to Correctness of List of 
Delinquents. ‘At the time he attends at the Auditor’s office, the 
Tax Collector must make an affidavit, indorsed on the list, that the 
taxes not marked ‘‘paid’’ have not been paid, and that he has 
not been able to discover any property belonging to or in posses- 
sion of the persons liable to pay the same whereof to collect them. 


Section 75: Collection of Delinquent Taxes. All taxes which 
shall have become delinquent shall be collected as follows: 

On or within five days before or after the first Monday in June 
of each year, the Tax Collector must publish the delinquent list, 
which must contain the names of the persons and a description of 
the property delinquent, and the amount of taxes and costs due, 
opposite each name and description, with the taxes due on per- 
sonal property added to the taxes on real estate, where the real 
estate is Hable therefor, or the several taxes are due from the 
same person. The expense of the publication to be a charge against 


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the City. The Tax Collector must append and publish with the 
delinquent list a notice that unless the taxes delinquent, together 
with the cost and percentage, are paid, the real property upon 
which such taxes are a lien, will be soJd at public auction. The 
publication must be made once a week .or three successive weeks 
in some newspaper or supplement thereto, published in said City, 
which newspaper shall be the one which shall have been desig- 
nated by the Council of said City to do the said printing and 
advertising. The publication must designate the time and place 
of sale, which time must not be less than twenty-one nor more 
than twenty-eight days from the first publication, and the place 
must be in or in front of the Tax Collector’s office. 


Section 76: Filing Copy of Delinquent Tax List With Coun- 
ty Recorder and City Clerk With Affidavit of Publication. The 
Tax Collector, as soon as he has made the publication required, 
must file with the County Recorder and City Clerk, respectively, 
a copy of the publication with an affidavit attached thereto, that 
it is a true copy of the same; that the publication was made in a 
newspaper or supplement thereto, stating its name and place of 
publication, and the date of each appearance; and that such news- 
paper or supplement thereto was the newspaper designated by 
the Council of said City to do said printing and advertising. 


section 77: Collection of Costs of Publication. The Tax Col- 
lector must collect, in addition to the taxes due on the delincuent 
list, and five per centum added thereto, fifty cents on each lot, 
piece or parcel of land separately assessed and on each assessment 
of personal property, which must go to the City. 


Section 78: Sale of Real Property For Tax Liens. On the day 
fixed for the sale, or on some subsequent day to which he may 
have postponed it, of which he must give notice, the Tax Col- 
_ lector, between the hours of ten o’clock A. M. and three P. M., 
must commence the sale of the property advertised, commencing 
at the head of the list and continuing until completed; he may 
postpone the day of commencing the sale or the sales from day to 
day; but the sale must be completed within three weeks from the 
day first fixed. 

Section 79: Right to Pay Taxes And Costs on Day of Sale— 
How Sale Conducted. On the day of sale, the owner or person 
in possession of any real estate offered for sale for taxes and costs 


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due thereon, may pay the taxes and costs due; but in case the 


taxes and costs are not paid by the owner or person in possession, 
or by some one in behalf of such owner or person in possession, 
then he shall sell said real estate to the person who will take the 
least quantity of land, or in case an undivided interest 1s assessed, 
then the smallest portion of the interest and pay the taxes and 
costs due, including one dollar for the duplicate certificate of sale 
to the purchaser. Out of said one dollar, the Tax Collector shall 
pay the charge, if any, of the County Recorder for filing the 
certificate of sale; the balance, if any, shall go to the City. But in 
case there is no purchaser in good faith for the property, then 
when the property is offered thereafter for sale, and there is no 
purchaser in good faith for the same, the whole amount of the 
property assessed shall be struck off to the City of Alameda, as 
the purchaser; no charge shall be made for the duplicate certific- 
ate when the City is the purchaser. 


Section 80: Necessity to Pay For Property Struck Off Be- 
fore Following Day.. The purchaser does not pay the taxes and 
costs before ten o’clock A. M. of the following day, the property 
on the next sale day before the regular sale must be resold for 
taxes and costs, and the bid of any person refusing to make the 
payment for the property purchased by him must not be received 
on the sale of any property advertised in the delinquent list of 
that year. 


Section 81: Certificates of Sale—Form Entering Descriptions 
of Land In Book. After receiving the amount of the taxes and 
costs, the Tax Collector must make out in duplicate a certificate 
dated on the day of sale stating, when known, the name, the 
amount of the assessment and year, and specifying the time when 
the purchaser would be entitled to a deed. The certificates must 
be signed by the Tax Collector, and one copy delivered to the 
purchaser and one copy filed in the office of the County Recorder. 
The Tax Collector must, in a book provided for that purpose, 
enter a description of the land sold corresponding to the deserip- 
tion in the original assessment book, the date of sale, the pur- 
chaser’s name and the amount for which it was sold, and must 
regularly number the descriptions on the margins of the book and 
put a corresponding number on each certificate. 


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Section 82: Transfer of City’s Lien to Purchaser on Filing 
Certificate. On filing the certificate with the County Recorder, 
the hen of the city vests in the purchaser and is only divested by 
the payment to him, or to the Ctiy Treasurer for his use, of the 
money necessary to redeem as herein provided. 


Section 83: Redemption From Tax Lien—How and When 
Done. A redemption of the property sold may be made by the 
owner or any party in interest, within five years from the date of 
the sale, by payment to the purchaser, or to the City Treasurer 
for his use, or to the City Treasurer for the City when the City 
is the purchaser, of the purchase money together with interest 
thereon at the rate of seven per cent per annum from the date of 
sale and also penalties as follow: Ten per cent of the purchase 
price if redeemed within six months from the date of sale; twenty 
per cent if redeemed within one year therefrom; forty per cent 
if redeemed within two years therefrom ; sixty per cent if redeemed 
within three years therefrom; eighty per cent if redeemed within 
four years therefrom, and one hundred per cent if redeemed 
within five years therefrom. Redemption must be made in lawful 
money of the United States, and when made to the City Treasurer 
he must credit the amount paid to the person.named in the Tax 
Collector’s certificate, and pay it on demand to the person or his 
assignees. The Treasurer shall also give to the person redeeming 
the property a certificate to the effect that the property has been 
redeemed, stating by whom the redemption is made, the amount 
received for such redemption and the date when the redemption 
is made. 


Section 84: Right to Make Partial Redemption. A partial re- 
demption may be made, separately from the whole assessment, of 
any lot, piece, or parcel of land contained in any assessment, if 
such lot, piece, or parcel has a separate valuation on the assess- 
ment book. 


Section 85: City Treasurer to Report Persons Entitled to Re- 
demption Money. The City Treasurer must report to the Council 
as often as once in three months the names of all persons entitled 
to redemption money, and the amount due to each. 


Section 86: Entry of Fact of Redemption. On presentation of 
the receipt of the person named as purchaser in the certificate 


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of sale or his assignee, for the redemption money, the Treasurer 
must mark the word ‘‘redeemed,’’ the date of redemption, and 
by whom redeemed, in the margin of the delinquent sale book. 


Section 87: EHxecution of Deed If Not Redeemed—Form and 
Effect of Deed. If the property is not redeemed within the time 
allowed by law for its redemption, the Tax Collector or his suc- 
cessor in office must make to the purchaser or his assignee a deed 
of the property, reciting in the deed the date of sale, the name of 
the person assessed, when known, a description of the land sold, 
the amount paid therefor, that it was sold for taxes, giving the 
amount and the year of the assessment, the time when, the right 
of redemption expired, and that no person has redeemed the pro- 
perty during the time allowed for its redemption. In all cases 
where land has hitherto been sold by the City of Alameda for 
delinquent taxes the redemption or the deed therefor shall be 
made in the manner and upon the terms provided by law at the 
time of such sale. 


The deeds provided for in this section shall have the same force 

eo, as, and the recitals therein shall have the same degree 

as evidence as the recitals in like deeds executed by the County 
Tax Collector, after sale of property for state and county taxes. 


Section 88: Sale of Property Purchased By City At Tax Sale 
—How Done. Whenever the City shall become the owner of any 
property sold for taxes, and the deed to the City has been re- | 
corded in the Recorder’s office of the County of Alameda, the Tax 
Collector of the City if directed by the Council, shall sell such 
property in the manner following: He must give notice of such 
sale by first publishing a notice for at least three successive weeks 
in some newspaper published in the City of Alameda. Such 
notice must state specifically the place of, and the day and hour of 
sale, and shall contain a description of the property to be sold 
and shall also embody a copy of the authorization received from 
the Council. At the time set for such sale, the Tax Collector must 
sell the property deszribed in the authorization and said notices, 
at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, in lawful money 
of the United States; but no bid shall be received or accepted at 
such sale for less than the amount of all the taxes levied upon 
such property, and all interests, costs, penalties, and expenses up 
to the date of such sale. The expense of the publication of the 


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notice herein required shall be a charge against the City. On 
receiving the amount bid, the Tax Collector must execute a deed 
to the purchaser, reciting the facts necessary to authorize such 
sale and conveyance, which deed shall convey all the interest of 
the City in and to such property, and shall be prima facie evid- 
ence of all facts recited therein. 


Section 89: Acknowledgment of Deeds By Tax Collector. 
For acknowledging any of the deeds above referred to, the Tax 
Collector shall collect from the purchaser the sum of three dollars, 
or in case a deed in proper form is prepared and presented by 
the purchaser, the T'ax Collector shall collect the sum of one dol- 
lar, but no charge shall be made for such deed when the City is 
the purchaser. 


Section 90: Refund of Taxes Illegally Collected. Any taxes 
erroneously or illegally collected may, by the order of the Couneil, 
be refunded by the Tax Collector. 

Section 91: Duty of Tax Collector Where Property Assessed 
Twice. When the Tax Collector discovers that any property has 
been assessed more than once for the year, he must collect only 
the tax justly due, and make return of the fact under affidavit to 
the Auditor. | 


section 92: Effect of Discovery of Irregular Assessment Be- 
fore Sale. If the Tax Collector discovers before the sale that, on 
account of irregular assessments, or of any other error, any land 
ought not to be sold, he must not offer the same for sale, and the 
Council must cause the Assessor to enter the uncollected taxes 
upon the assessment book of the next succeeding year, to be 
. collected as other taxes thereon. 


section 93: Immateriality of Misnomer of Owner on Tax Sale. 
When the land is sold for taxes correctly imposed as the property 
of a particular person, no misnomer of the owner. or supposed 
owner, or other mistakes relating to the ownership thereof, affects 
the sale or renders it void or voidable. 


Section 94: Effect of Assessment Valid And Void In Part. 
Whenever property is advertised for sale for the non-payment 
of delinquent taxes, and the assessment is valid in part and void 
for the excess, the sale shall not for that cause be deemed invalid, 
nor any grant subsequently made thereunder be held to be insuf- 


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ficient to pass a title to the grantee, unless the owner of the pro- 
perty, or his agent, shall, not less than six days before’ the time 
at which the property is advertised to be sold, deliver to the Tax 
Collector a protest in writing, signed by the respective owner or 
agent. specifying the portion of the tax which he claims to be 
invalid, and the ground upon which said claim is based. 


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Section 95: Effect of Protest Against Sale As Void In Whole 
or Part. In case any owner of property advertised to be sold for 
delinquent taxes shall, at least six days before the time advertised 
for the sale to take place, deliver to the Tax Collector his protest, 
in writing, against such sale, signed by himself or his agent, 
claiming that the assessment is void in whole or in part. and if 
in part only for what portion, and in either case specifying the 
grounds upon which such claims is founded, it shall be the duty 
of the Tax Collector, either, first, to sell the property for the 
whole amount appearing upon the delinquent assessment book, or, 
second, to withdraw the property from sale and report the case 
to the Council for its direction in the premises, and in such case 
the Council may either direct the foreclosure of the lien of such 
tax by action or direct the Tax Collector to proceed with the 
sale. 


Section 96: Subsequent Assessment of Property Purchased By 
City At Tax Sale. In case property assessed for taxes is purchased 
by the city pursuant to the provisions of Section 79, it shall be 
assessed for taxes for each succeeding year until deeded, in the 
same manner as if it had not been so purchasd. But it shall not 
be exposed for sale; and the sale thereof, under such assessment 
for succeeding years shall be adjourned until the time of redemp- 
tion under the original sale shall have expired. 


Section 97: Effect of Subsequent Assessments on Redemption, 
In case property is sold to the city as purchaser, pursuant to See- 
tion 79, and is subsequently assessed pursuant to the provisions 
of this ordinance, no person shall be permitted to redeem from 
such sale, except upon payment also of the amount of such subse- 
quent assessment, cost, fees, and interest. 


Section 98: Harmless Omissions or Errors In Description or 
Assessment—How Cured. Omissions, errors or defects in deserip- 
tion, or defects in form in the assessment book when it can be 


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ascertained therefrom or from the Assessor’s map or block books. 
or from the lst furnished by the property owner, what was 
intended to be assessed, or what should have been assessed, may, 
with the written consent of the City Attorney, be supplied or 
eorrected by the Assessor at any time prior to the sale for delin- 
quent taxes, and after the original assessment was made. When 
the omission, error or defect has been carried into a delinquent 
tax list, or any publication, the hst or publication may be repub- 
lished as corrected, or notice of the correction may be given in a 
supplementary publication, provided that the republication must 
be made in the same manner as the original publication, and for 
not less than one week. 


Section 99: Use of Abbreviations, Initials and Figures.. In 
the assessment of land, advertisement and sale thereof for taxes, 
initial letters, abbreviations, and figures may be used to designate 
the townships, range, section or parts thereof, and for any other 
purpose when a written or printed explanation of such abbrevia- 
tion, or initial letters or figures shall appear on each page of the 
assessment book where the same is used. 


Section 100: Effect of Mere Informality. No assessment or 
act relating to assessment, or collection of taxes is illegal on 
account of informality, nor because the same was not completed 
within the time required by law. 


Section 101: Lieu of Newspaper Advertising. In lieu of any 
newspaper advertising herein provided for, a bulletin containing 
such matter as may be required by law to be advertised, may, 
by order of the Council, be issued and published in accordance 
with the provisions of Section 11 of Article IT of the Charter of 
the City of Alameda. 


Section 102: Adoption of Title IX, Part III Pol. Code. The 
provisions of Title IX, Part III of the Political Code of the State 
of California in so far as the same are not inconsistent or in con- 
thet with the provisions of this ordinance or the Charter of the 
City of Alameda, and in so far as the same are applicable to the 
system of revenue established by this ordinance, are hereby 
adopted and made a part of this ordinance. 


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CHAPTER IV. 


STREETS, PARKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PLACES. 


ARTICLE 1-—-STREETS IN GENERAL. 


Section 103: The Dedication of Public Streets. All streets, 
lanes, places, avenues, and portions thereof, including extensions 
in length and width, within the corporate limits of the City of 
Alameda, which have been dedicated by the owners thereof to 
public use, or which have been opened or offered by the owners 
for the use of the public, are hereby accepted and declared to be 
open public streets of said city. 

All the streets represented on the map made by Alfred Ban- 
nister and received and filed the 24th day of September, 1872, 
and signed by said Bannister, civil engineer, and Henry Rob- 
inson, President of the Board of Trustees, are hereby declared 
public streets. 


Section 104: Ascertainment and Construction of Datum Line. 
The datum line or plane of reference of all street grades is mean 
high tide, as determined by the Board of Engineers of Oakland. 


section 105: How Streets and Crossings Must Be Constructed. 
First—Said street, or portion thereof, must have gas pipes and 
water pipes laid therein, and a vitrified ironstone sewer with flush 
tanks, manholes, and Y branches where the same are required, 
and side connections with each house fronting on said street— 
all laid in accordance with city ordinances and specifications. 

Second—The roadway must be curbed with cut stone or 
cement; must have rock or concrete gutters constructed on both 
sides thereof, and be graded tu the official grade and macadam- 
ized with hard, tough, broken trap rock, or graveled, in aecord- 
ance with such specifications therefor as the said Council has 
adopted, or shall from time to time adopt; or said roadway must 
be paved with bituminous rock, containing not less than 14 per 
cent of bituminous matter, of a thickness of not less than one and 
one-half inches, laid upon a concrete foundation of not less than 
four inches in depth, composed of cement, sand and broken rock, 
in accordance with such specifications therefor, or upon such 
other foundation as this Council shall approve. 


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Third—No street crossing shall be accepted unless such cross- 
ing be properly sewered, with manhole, and is properly graded 


and macadamized or paved with bitumen, as prescribed for 
streets, and has the corners completed with curved cement, or cut 


stone curbing and gutters, and has iron pipe culverts and cement 
bridges and all completed in accordance with city specifications 
therefor. 


Section 106: Requirements For Acceptance. No street, or 
portion thereof, shall be accepted until completed in the fore- 
going particulars and until it has been referred to the Street 
Committee, or the Superintendent of Streets, and a report been 
received of its condition. 


Section 107: Excepting of Railroad Track Way and Curbing. 
Acceptance of a street or crossing, or portions thereof, shall 
not be deemed an acceptance of that portion required to be kept 
in order or repair by any person or company having railroad 
tracks thereon. 


Section 108: Partial or Conditional Acceptance. A street may 
be partially, or conditionally, accepted in whole or in part, under 
such terms as the City Council shall deem reasonable and in con- 
formity with law. 


Article 2—OBSTRUCTIONS AND INTERFERENCE WITH 
PUBLIC STREETS. 


Section 109: Necessity For Permit to Place Building Mater. 
ial and Other Obstructions on Streets. No person shall place or 
cause to be placed on any street, sidewalk or public place in the 
City of Alameda, any material, machinery or apparatus for 
building, paving or other purposes and allow the same to there 
remain for over 24 hours without a permit from the Street Super- 
intendent. Such permit shall specify the portion of the street 
or sidewalk to be used and the period of such use, which period 
shall not be longer than may be reasonably necessary and may be 
extended only in case of necessity. 


Section 110: To Whom Permit to Be Granted—$20 Deposit 
As Guarantee. The permit aforementioned and required shall be 
granted to the owner of the lot, or to the builder, or contractor 
who wishes to use street space, upon depositing with the Street 


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Superintendent the sum of twenty ($20.00) dollars as a guarantee 
to the City of Alameda that the permittee will remove or cause to 
be removed, all dirt, debris and materials of any kind from the 
street to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent, imme- 
diately upon the completion of the proposed work, or at such 
times prior thereto, when in the judgment of the Street Super- 
intendent the public interest and convenience will be subserved 
by the removal of the same, or any portion thereof; and that he 
will repair all damage done to street, gutter, curb or sidewalk 
through negligence in protecting same. 


Section 111: Failure of Permittee to Remove Debris. Upon 
the failure or negligence of the permittee to remove or cause. to 
be removed to the satisfaction of said Street Superintendent such 
dirt, debris or materials as aforesaid, within three days after 
being notified so to do by said Street Superintendent, the money 
so deposited as a guaranty or so much thereof as may be neces- 
sary, shall be used by said Street Superintendent in the removal 
of such dirt, debris or materials. 


Section 112: Obedience to Directions of Street Superin- 
tendent. Every person having control of any such material, 
machinery or apparatus, shall obey every lawful direction of the 
Street Superintendent as to such building material,’ whether 
contained in‘said permit or made after issuance thereof, and 
shall comply with the rules hereinafter set forth. 


Section 113: Placing of Mortar or Concrete on Streets or 
Sidewalks.. No person shall place or cause to be placed anywhere 
upon the surface of the roadway of any public street, in this City, 
paved with either bituminous rock or with asphalt, or upon the 
surface of any improved sidewalk therein, either mortar or con- 
erete in a moist state for any purpose whatsoever, or mix or pre- 
pare the same upon such roadway or sidewalk, unless such mor- 
tar or concrete be placed, mixed or prepared in a tight box upon 
a-close fitted platform, or bed, constructed and maintained to the 
satisfaction of the Street Superintendent. 


Section 114: Rules Governing The Placing of Building Mater- 
ial and Other Obstructions on Street or Sidewalk. The following 
rules relating to the subject of this article are hereby adopted and 
shall be observed. 


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No. 1. Such permits shall not authorize the occupation of any 
sidewalk or street, or part thereof, other than that immediately 
in front of the premises of the building for the construction of 
which said permit is issued. During the progress of building 
operations at least six feet of the sidewalk pavement covered by 
said permit shall be at all times kept clear of rubbish and dirt for 
the free and unobstructed use of pedestrians. 


No. 2. Whenever the conditions are such that the sidewalk 
must be occupied or removed, a temporary plank walk not less 
than three feet in width, with substantial railings shall be con- 
structed around the outside of the obstruction and maintained 
during the obstruction of the sidewalk. 

No. 3. If there are excavations on either side of the sidewalk 
said sidewalk must be protected by substantial railings not less 
than 214 feet high from the floor of said walk. Said railings to 
be maintained so long as such excavations continue to exist. 

No. 4. It shall be permitted for the purpose of delivering 
material to the basements of buildings, to construct elevated tem- 
porary sidewalks not less than six feet in width and of a height 
not exceeding four feet above the curb level of the street; and 
in case the sidewalk is so elevated it shall be provided with good 
substantial steps at each end of the same, and shall have railings 
as before specified on both sides thereof. 

No. 5. All approaches to excavations and depressions must be 
barricaded. 


No. 6. If the building to be erected is more than three stories 
in height and is set at or near the street line. there shall be built 
over such sidewalk a roof having a frame work and covering 
composed of supports and stringers of 3x12 timbers, not more 
than four feet from centers, covered with two layers of two-inch 
plank. Said roof shall be maintained as long as material is being 
used or handled on said street front and above the level of the 
sidewalk. 

No. 7. In all cases such temporary sidewalks, railings and 
approaches and the roofs over same shall be made as regards 
ease of approach, strength and safety, to the satisfaction of the 
Street Superintendent. 


No. 8. All gutters and waterways must be bridged over and 
kept clear of obstructions to the free passage of water. 


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No. 9 Material or other obstructions must not be placed within 
twelve feet of any hydrant of the city, used for fire purposes. 

No. 10. Lighted lanterns must be displayed and maintained 
at each end of every pile of material or other obstructions in the 
street, and at each end of every excavation, from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. 

No. 11. Earth taken from excavations and rubbish taken from 
buildings must not be stored either upon sidewalks or roadways 
of streets, and must be removed from day to day as rapidly as 
produced. When dry rubbish, apt to produce dust, is being 
handled, it must be kept wetted down, so as to prevent its being 
blown about by the wind. 

No. 12. Whenever it becomes necessary for the safety of 
pedestrians to erect a fence in front of a building under con- 
struction, said fence if built upon the street or sidewalk, shall 
not exceed six feet in height and shall contain no advertising 
matter. 

No. 13. The occupation of the street for the storage of build- 
ing materials shall never exceed in front of any one building, one- 
third of the roadway of the same. and in streets containing rail- 
road tracks, such occupation shall not come within four feet of 
such railroad track. 


section 115: Removal of Obstructions on Streets By Street 
Superintendent. The Superintendent of Streets is hereby author- 
ized and empowered to remove, or cause to be removed, to any 
place selected by him, all materials of whatever nature, which 
obstruct the free use of any street, lane or sidewalk in the City of 
Alameda, or which render the same dangerous to the public. 


Section 116: Recovery of Materials Removed. The owners of 
materials so removed may recover the same before the same are 
sold by the Superintendent of Streets, on payment of the actual 
costs and charges of such removaland other incurred expenses. 


Section 117: Depositing Broken Glass, Dirt, Rubbish, Etc., In 
The Streets, or Manholes or Sewers, Etc. No person shall, in the 
City of Alameda, throw into or deposit upon any public street, 
highway, or grounds, or upon any private premises, or anywhere 
except in such places as may be designated for that purpose by 
the Superintendent of Streets, or provided by ordinance, any 
glass broken ware, dirt, rubbish, garbage or filth. No person 
shall empty or throw or deposit in any cesspool or manhole or 


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flushing hole of any sewer, any glass, broken ware, hay, straw, 
dirt, rubbish, garbage, filth, butcher’s offal. blood or brine. or 
any animal or vegetable matter. 


section 118: Injuring Lamp-post. No person shall, in the 
City of Alameda, break, injure or deface any portion of any pub- 
lic lamp-post or electrolier or break any globe or attachments to 
said lamp-post or electrolier, extinguish during the night anv 
pubhe hght or any light maintained at any place for public con- 
venience or safety. 


section 119: Injuring Street Guides. No person, in said city, 
shall cause the removal of any street guide or any portion there- 
of; obliterate, deface, destroy, or interfere with any street guide, 
or any portion thereof. 


section 120: Dispersing Crowds On Public Streets By Police. 
Whenever the free passage of a public street or sidewalk of said 
city, or of any part of such streets or sidewalks shall be ob- 
structed by a crowd of people, the persons composing such crowd 
shall disperse or move on when directed so to do by the Chief of 
Police, or any police officer of said city. 


Section 121: Allowing Tree Branches to Extend on Sidewalks. 
No person, in the City of Alameda, shall permit branches of trees 
or shrubs to extend within ten feet from the ground over any por- 
tion of the sidewalk or one-half of the street next to or in front of 
premises owned or occupied by him, except that portion within 
four feet from the curb line thereof. 


Section 122: Animals Grazing on the Streets. No person own- 
ing or having the control of, or being the keeper of, any horse, 
mule, cow, goat, sheep, hog, ass, or domestic fowl, shall permit the 
same to run at large upon or graze or feed upon any public 
street or unfenced lot in the City of Alameda. 


Section 123: Mutilating Trees. No person shall cut down, re- 
move or mutilate any tree upon any public street or square of the 
City of Alameda, unless he shall have first obtained permission 
of the Superintendent of Streets. 


Section 124: Cultivation of Vegetables and Garden Truck in 
Open Public Streets. No person shall plow any portion of au 
open public street or avenue in the City of Alameda except for 


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the purpose of grading the same under authority duly had and 
obtained from the City Council of said city and no person shall 
cultivate, sow or plant therein any vegetables or garden truck. 


Section 125: Driving Animals on Streets. No person shall 
drive or cause to be driven upon any public street or sidewalk 
of the City of Alameda any loose cattle, horses, mules, hogs, sheep 
or goats. 


Section 126: Barbed Wire Fences. No person shall, upon any 
property owned or leased by him, and contiguous to or along any 
street, court, lane, public thoroughfare or sidewalk, in the City 
of Alameda, construct, set up or maintain any barbed wire or 
barbed wire fence or inclosure unless the same shall be secured, 
constructed, set up or maintained at least six feet above the 
gcround. | 


Section 127: Hanging of Banners Over or Across Streets or 
Avenues. No person shall hang or display and no person shall 
permit to be hung, displayed or maintained in front of any prem- 
ises owned, occupied or controlled by him in the City of Alameda, 
over or cross any street, avenue or sidewalk therein, any banner 
or other similar device used for advertising. (As amended by 
Oc NOs 2a Neos) 


section 128: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 


Article 3—PROTECTION OF PUBLIC PARKS AND PLACES. 


Section 129: Placing Control, and Supervision of. The Super- 
intendent of Streets is hereby vested with the supervision, control 
and management of the trees and shrubs upon the public streets 
and highways of the City of Alameda and may adopt regulations 
for the setting out, care and maintenance of such trees and 
shrubs. Said Superintendent of Streets may also cause any such 
trees or shrubs to be removed, trimmed, pruned or cut whenever 
in his judgment the same may be necessary for the public good. 


Section 130: Necessity for Permit to Plant, Trim or Cut. No 
tree or trees, shrub or shrubs, shall be planted, or set out upon 
any public street or place in the City of Alameda, and no tree or 


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trees, shrub or shrubs, located upon any public street or place 
shall be removed, trimmed, pruned or cut without a permit first 
had and obtained from the Superintendent of Streets so to do. 
When such permit is for the setting out of trees it may prescribe 
the number, kind and distance apart thereof, and when for the 
removal, trimming, pruning or cutting thereof may prescribe 
the number of trees to be effected thereby and the manner and the 
performance of the work. And such permit shall be operative 
only when exercised subject to such regulations as said Superin- . 
tendent of Streets may adopt for the purpose as hereinbefore 
mentioned. 


Section 131: Breaking or Injuring Flowers, Trees, Etc., In 
Public Parks or Places. No person, other than the persons in 
charge of the same, shall cut, break or otherwise injure or cull - 
flowers from any bush, shrub or tree growing in any public park 
or public place in the City of Alameda. 


Section 1382: Walking on Grass. No person, excepting gar- 
deners or other persons in charge, shall walk or recline upon any 
grass plot in any public park or public place in said city. 

Section 133: Opening or Closing Hydrants. No person, other 
than the persons in charge of said park or public place, shall open 
or close anv water hydrant therein. 


Section 134: Permitting Animals or Fowls in Public Parks. 
No person shall permit any dog or other domestic animal or fowl. 
owned or controlled by him, or in his custody, to enter or remain 
upon any public park in said city. 


Section 135: Injuring Grass Plots, Borders, Etc. No person 
shall walk, sit upon, or in any manner injure any grass plot, 
edging of grass, border, or ornamental ground, along any side- 
walk or in any park or public place in said city. 


Section 136: Prohibiting the Defacement of Public Buildings 
and Other Property. It shall be unlawful for any person, in the 
City of Alameda, to write, stamp, affix, mark, or attach any in- 
scription, name, picture, or other thing upon any wall, tower, or 
other part of any building owned or controlled by the City of 
Alameda, or upon any fence surrounding or any approach to such 
building or upon any electrolier, any pole or mast used for the 
transmission of electricity, owned or controlled by the City of 


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Alameda. Provided, that this section shall not apply to the acts 
of mechanics duly authorized to perform work upon any public 
building. 


Section 137: Removing Public Monuments. No person shall 
in the City of Alameda, cover up, destroy or remove any monu- 
ment erected or placed by the City Engineer or the Superin- 
tendent of Streets. 

If it shall become necessary for any person, in the pursuit of 
~ any lawful purpose, to have any such monument removed, notice 
of such necessity shall be given to the City Engineer or Sup- 
erintendent of Streets. Said City Engineer or Superintendent of 
Streets shall proceed forthwith, att he cost of the person requiring 
such removal, to remove such monument, and place the same in 
its original position as soon as the object shall be attained for 
which the removal shall have been made. 


Section 138: Interfering With Municipal Electric Light or 
Fire Alarm Systems. It shall be unlawful for any person, other 
than a public employee in the discharge of his duties, to cut, 
move, change, injure, deface, or in any manner interfere with 
any wire, insulator, pole, guy or other apparatus belonging to 
the Electric Light or Fire Alarm, or Police Signal systems of said 
city. (As amended by Ord. No. 2, N. 8.) 


Section 139: Using Electricity Belonging to City. No person 
in the City of Alameda, other than city employes in the per- 
formance of their duties as such employes shall attach any wire 
or other conductor to any electric wire or conductor owned by 
said city, or shall open, connect with, or cut into any electric — 
circuit used by said city, or shall by any device or method obtain 
or use any of the electricity developed or conducted by the appli- 
ances owned by said city. 


Section 140: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 


demeanor. 


Article 4 REPAIRING OF STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES 
AND LAYING OF GAS AND WATER PIPES THEREIN. 


Section 141: Duty of Street Superintendent to Notify Owner. 
Whenever any portion of any street, lane, alley, court, or place 


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in the City of Alameda, improved, or any sidewalk constructed 
thereon, according to law, shall be out of repair, and in condition 
to endanger persons or property passing thereon or in condition 
to interfere with the public convenience in the use thereof, it 
shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Streets of said City 
to require, by notice in writing to be delivered to them person- 
ally, or left on the premises, the owners or occupants of lots or 
portions of lots fronting on said portions of said street, lane, alley, 
court, or place, or of said portion of said walk so out of repair as 
aforesaid, to repair forthwith said portion of sand street, lane, 
alley, court, or place to the center thereof, or said sidewalk in 
front of the property of which he is the owner, or tenant, or occu- 
pant; specifying in said notice what repairs are required to be 
made. 


Section 142: Owner or Occupant to Make Repairs After 
Notice. It shall be unlawful for said owner, or occupant, or 
tenant, of said lot or portion of said lots to neglect or refuse, for 
the period of three days from the date of the service of the afore- 
said notice, to make said repairs, and diligently, and without in- 
terruption, to prosecute the same to completion. 


Section 143: Removal of Macadam or Surface Dressing of 
streets and Laying Down of Water, Gas, or Other Pipes Therein 
—Indemnity For Damage. No person, firm or corporation shall, 
in the City of Alameda, tear up, loosen, or remove any portion of 
the macadam, gravel or other surface dressing of any public 
street without first giving written notice thereof to the Super- 
intendent of Streets, and depositing with the City Clerk of said 
city the sum of ten dollars for each thirty square feet, or portion 
thereof, to be so torn up, loosened or removed, as security for any 
damage that may be caused thereby, and that the streets shall be 
left in as good condition as it was before being so torn up, loos- 
ened, or disturbed. 


Section 144: Under Supervision of Street Superintendent. 
All such work shall be done under the supervision and to the 
satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets, and the materials 
taken up or removed shall be replaced in accordance with the 
specifications for first macadamizing or graveling the street, and 
when pipes are laid the filling of trenches shall be thoroughly 


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tamped and wet down. The surface dressing shall be rolled or 
tamped so as to leave no ridge in the paved street. The person 
or company so removing the surface dressing shall at any time 
within one year after replacing the same, on demand of the Super- 
intendent of Streets, repeat said work of refitting the macadam- 
izing and do all filling that may be necessary to raise any sunken 
part of the street above said pipes to the proper grade. 


Section 145: Return of Indemnity Deposit. Upon the com- 
pletion of any of the work above mentioned the Superintendent 
of Streets shall inspect the same, and if the street is found to be 
in good condition he shall so certify to the City Clerk, who shall 
thereupon return the deposit made. In the event of said material 
not being properly replaced and the street left in good order and 
condition the Superintendent of Streets may cause the same to be 
repaired and certify the cost thereof to the City Clerk, who shall 
deduct that amount from the sum so deposited and return the 
balance, if any, to the owner. 


Section 146: Bond in Lieu of Cash. In lieu of said cash 
deposit a bond in double the amount required for said deposit, 
with two good and sufficient sureties, approved by the City Clerk, 
may be filed with the City Clerk. Said bond to be conditioned 
that said roadway shall be left in as good condition as the same 
existed before being torn up or disturbed, and that all materials 
will be replaced according to the general specifications therefor. 


Section 147: Regulating the Laying of Gas and Water Pipes. 
Except when otherwise ordered by the City Council, all water 
pipes and conduits in said city shall be laid on the northerly side 
of streets running in an easterly and westerly direction, and on 
the westerly side of streets running in a northerly and southerly 
direction. The pipes and conduits must be laid under the road- 
way of the street five (5) feet from the curb line of the street, 
and the top of the conduits and pipes must be at least three (3) 
feet below the top of the curb line of the street. All gas pipes, 
unless otherwise so ordered must be laid on the opposite side of 
the streets from said water pipes. When pipes or conduits cross 
the line of gas pipes, they must be laid so as not to interfere with 
such gas pipes. 


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Section 148: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 5—CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF SIDEWALKS. 


Section 149: Establishing Grade of Sidewalks. The official 
surface grade of all public stone, artificial stone, and wooden side- 
walks in the City of Alameda, shall be two inches above the 
official curb grade at the curb lines, and from thence shall rise 
to a uniform grade of one-quarter of an inch to the foot, to the 
private property lines. 


Section 150: General Width of Sidewalks. The with of every 
sidewalk, unless otherwise ordered, must be one-fifth of the total 
width of the street. 


Section 151: Construction or Repair of Sidewalks. No person 
shall construct, alter, or repair any sidewalk in said city without 
having first obtained permission therefor from the Superin- 
tendent of Streets. 


Section 152: Manner of Construction. No person shall con- 
struct or repair any sidewalk in said city in any manner other 
than in accordance with the specifications therefor adopted, or 
which may from time to time be adopted, by the City Council, or 
unless the same shall be constructed upon the official sidewalk 
orade. 5 


Section 153: Duty to Cease Work Thereon on Request of 
Street Superintendent. Whenever any difference of opinion may 
arise as to whether or not any sidewalk or street is being im- 
proved according to the specifications therefor, or whether or 
not the materials being used in such construction or repair are 
suitable, it shall be the duty of the person or persons so construct- 
ing or repairing such street or sidewalk, to cease work thereon 
immediately upon being requested so to do by the Superintendent 
of Streets of said city and refrain from further work thereon un- 
til consent is obtained from the official who requested said work 
to cease, or from the City Council. 


Section 154: Specifications For Construction of Cement Side- 
walks and Driveways. No person shall construct any cement 


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sidewalks or driveways in the City of Alameda without conform- 
ing to the provisions of this article. 


Section 155: Width and°Grade of Cement Sidewalks. Where 
the official width of sidewalk is greater than twelve (12) feet no 
cement sidewalk must be laid thereon less than six (6) feet in 
width, except through special permission of the City Council. 

Where the official width of sidewalk is fixed at twelve (12) feet 
or less, no cement sidewalk must be laid thereon less than five 
(5) feet, in width, except where the official width or sidewalk is 
less than five (5) feet, in which event the cement sidewalk must 
be laid from the curb to property lines and wherever the sidewalk 
runs to the curb, all wooden curbing must be cut out and a cem- 
ent curb must be laid in conjunction with the sidewalk. 

The walk shall have a slope toward the curb of one-fourth inch 
to one foot, and shall be placed to such grade that if continued 
to the curb said walk will be two inches above the grade of the 
curb, if said curb is of wood, and to the same grade of the curb, 
if said curb is of granite, cement or concrete. 


Section 156: To Be Constructed According to Lines and 
Grades of City Engineer. The entire work shall be laid and con- 
structed to the lines and grades as set by the City Engineer. 


Section 157: Construction Under Supervision of Street Sup- 
erintendent.. All work shall be done under the direction, super- 
vision and to the satisfaction of the mob Superintendent of the 
City of Alameda. 

All material used in the work shall comply with these specifica- 
tions and be to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent, 
Samples of all said material, and information in regard thereto, 
must be furnished to said Street Superintendent, if required by 
him, and representatives of the Street Superintendent shall be 
given facilities for the inspection of materials and processes used 
in connection with the work. 


Section 158: Rejected and Surplus Material to Be Removed. 
All rejected and refuse materials are to be removed immediately 
from the work and all surplus materials shall be removed from 
the work within five (5) days after the construction of the side- 
walk is complete. 


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Section 159: Contractor to Place Warning Signals. The Con- 
tractor shall provide and maintain such fences, barriers, ‘‘Street 
Closed’’ signs, red lights, and watchmen as may be necessary to 
prevent avoidable accidents to the public. 

No material or other obstruction shall be placed within twelve 
(12) feet of fire hydrants, which must be at all times readily ac- 
cessible to the Fire Department. 


Section 160: Supervisory Care of Contractor to Be Exercised. 
Any overseer, superintendent, laborer or other person employed 
on the work by the Contractor, who shall perform his work in a 
manner contrary to these specifications, or who is disorderly, in- 
temperate or incompetent, shall be discharged immediately, and 
such person shall not again be employed on tahe work. 

The Contractor shall be constantly on the work during its pro- 
gress or shall be represented by a foreman who is competent to 
receice and carry out any instructio that may be given him by 
the proper authorities, and said Contractor will be held liable for 
the faithful observance of any instructions which may be deliv- 
ered to him or his representatives on the work. 


Section 161: Kind of Cement. All cement used on the work 
shall be hydraulic Portland cement, pulverulent and free from 
lumps. Cement shall be delivered in the manufacturer’s packages 
with the brand and name of the manufacturer plainly marked 
thereon and shall be approved by the Street Superintendent. 


Section 162: Kind of Sand. Sand, for mortar, shall be clean, 
sharp, dry, silicious sand, and shall not contain, in all, more than 
five (5) per cent by volume, of clay, loam, mica. scales. silt or 
other objectionable inorganic matter, nor more than one (1) per 
cent of organic matter. It shall be made up of grains whose com- 
position shall be such that at least sixty (60) per cent, by weight, 
shall pass a twenty (20) mesh sereen, not more than eighty-five 
(85) per cent shall pass a fifty (50) mesh screen, and not more 
than fifteen (15) per cent shall pass an eighty (80) mesh screen. 


Section 163: Kind of Broken Stone. Broken stone, for con- 
crete, shall be sound, tough and have irregular cleavage. It shall 
be free from clay, loam, or other foreign material, shall have 
clean, fresh surfaces, and shall be that portion of the crusher run 
that passes through a circular screen having openings one and 


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one-quarter (114) inches in diameter and is retained upon a cir- 
cular screen having openings one-eighth (44) of an inch in 
diameter. 


Section 164: Kind of Concrete. Concrete shall be a mixture of 
the cement, sand and broken stone hereinbefore specified, mixed 
in the proportion by volume of one (1) cubic foot of cement, two 
(2) eubie feet of sand, and four (4) cibic feet of broken stone. 
In measuring the cement it is to be dropped from a shovel into 
the measuring box with a fall of three (3) feet. The mixing may 
be either by hand or by machines, but must result in a thorough 
and uniform admixture of the several ingredients. During the 
mixing, water is to be added by spraying (not played on in a 
stream) till the concrete is so wet that free water will be brought 
to the surface in tamping. Conerete shall be placed in the work 
as soon as practicable, and no concrete that has been wet longer 
than forty (40) minutes shall be used. 


Section 165: Character of Surface Layer. The surface layer 
shall consist of one (1) part of cement to one (1) part of sereened 
gravel, mixed dry and then made into a mortar by adding a suffi- 
elent quantity of water. 

The surface layer shall be colored by adding the best quality 
of lampblack to the gravel before mixing it with the cement, in 
the proportion of one (1) pound of lampblack to four (4) eubie 
feet of gravel. 


Section 166: Extent of Excavation. The excavation for the 
conerete shall extend six (6) inches outside of the lines of walk 
on each side. Where the ground is of adobe the same shall be 
excavated to a depth of ten (10) inches below the subgrade of the 
cement work. If the adobe is less than ten (10) inches thick, the 
same shall be wholly removed. The cavity thus formed shall be 
filed with broken rock, gravel, sand or earth other than the 
adobe, which filling shall be tamped thoroughly to subgrade of 
cement work, shall be smooth and even on surface, and shall be 
thoroughly sprinkled with water. 

Where there is no adobe, the ground shall be made solid and 
smooth to subgrade by tamping; all roots and perishable mater- 
lals shall be removed. 


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Section 167: Manner of Construction. A layer of concrete as 
specified shall be placed on the subgrade and thoroughly tamped. 
This layer shall be two and one-half (2145) inches thick after 
tamping. 

Before the layer of concrete has set, the surface layer, one-half 
(42) inch thick of mortar as specified, shall be put on and trow- 
eled smooth. 

The surface of the walk shall be marked off in squares accord- 
ing to the direction of the Street Superintendent. 

Where a driveway crosses the sidewalk, the walk must be rough 
finished for a lineal distance of at least eight feet, and must be 
at least four (4) inches in thickness. The driveways must extend 
to the gutters and across same to a distance of at least three (3) 
feet on roadway side of curb line. They must gradually descend 
in grade to conform to bottom grade of gutters and also to con- 
form to cross section of gutters and crown of finished roadway 
adjacent to gutters. 

The surface of the walk and driveway, immediately after fin- 
ishing, shall be protected from the sun and frost. and after set- 
ting shall be covered with a coating of moist earth. This earth 
covering shall be left in place and moistened for one week, after 
which it shall be removed and the surface of the walk swept clean. 


Section 168: Bids for Sidewalks Constructed By the City. 
Bidders for the construction of sidewalks or driveways on behalf 
of the City of Alameda shall state prices per square foot of cement 
sidewalk to be laid. 


Section 169: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 6—OBSTRUCTIONS ON OR INTERFERENCE WITH 
USE OF SIDEWALKS. 


Section 170: Erection and Maintenance of Wooden Awnings. 
No person, firm or corporation shall erect or cause to be erected 
any wooden awning which shall project over any sidewalk or 
portions of a sidewalk or street of the City of Alameda. 


Section 171: Removal of Unsafe Awnings. Every person, 
firm or corporation owning, occupying or controlling any build- 


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ing within the fire limits of che City of Alameda, in front of which 
a wooden awning which is unsafe or in a dangerous condition pro- 
jects over the sidewalk or portion of the street, shall cause the 
same to be removed within seven (7) days after being notified so 
to do by the Superintendent of Streets. 


Section 172: Respecting Altitudes of Awnings, Etc. No per- 
son shall construct an awning or any other projection, or sufter 
the same to remain, at an altitude of less than seven and one-half 
feet, over anv sidewalk in front of premises owned, oceupied, or 
controlled by him in the said City of Alameda. 


Section 173: Spinning of Tops On Stone Sidewalk. No person 
shall spin any top having a metal peg, on any public stone or arti- 
ficial stone sidewalk in the City of Alameda. 


Section 174: Throwing of Hard Substances on Stone Side- 
walks. No person shall throw any hard substance or material 
upon or against any public stone or artificial stone sidewalk in the 
City of Alameda. 


Section 175: Use of Bicycles And Skates on Stone Sidewalks. 
No person shall use any bicycle, tricycle, or velocipede upon any 
public stone or artificial stone sidewalk in the City of Alameda, 
unless the wheels, thereof are bound with rubber tires, and the 
driving wheel thereof not over 20 inches in diameter. No person 
shall skate on any portion of Park and Webster Streets in the 
City of Alameda. 


Section 176: Obstruction of Sidewalk By Boxes, Barrels, Etc. 
No person in the City of Alameda shall place or cause to be placea 
anywhere upon any public street, way, or sidewalk, and no person 
owning, occupying, or having the control of any premises shall 
suffer to remain in front thereof upon the sidewalk, or portion of 
the street or way next to such premises, any boxes, bales, barrels, 
wood, lumber, goods, wares, and merchandise, or any other thing 
obstructing the free use or passage of such street, way, or side- 
walk. Provided, however, that any person may display goods, 
wares and merchandise on that portion of the sidewalk within 
two and one-half feet from his property line and also provided 
that goods, wares and merchandise in transit may be allowed on 
the outer three feet of the sidewalk for a period not exceeding 
three hours. . 


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Section 177: Protection of Sidewalk Curbing. No person shall 
cause any vehicle, drawn by horse, ass or mule or any motor 
vehicle to pass over any wooden or cement sidewalk curb in said 
City, unless said curb is guarded so as to be protected from Injury. 


Section 178: Misdemeanor. Any person violating the provi- 
sions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 7—TRAFFIC AND TRAVEL OVER PUBLIC STREETS. 


Section 179: Term Vehicle Defined. For the purpose of this 
Ordinance the word vehicle shall be held to include saddle horses 
with their riders, horses hitched to vehicles, led horses, automo- 
biles, motor vehicles, of all kinds and everything on wheels ex- 
cept street cars or interurban cars, toy wagons, children’s bicy- 
cles and the like, invalid chairs and baby carriages or convey- 
ances. 


Section 180: Term Horse As Used Herein. The word horse 
shall be held to include any animal used as motive power for any 
vehicle, 


Section 181: Term Sidewalk As Used Herein. The word Side- 
walk shall be held to include the space between the property line 
and the outer edge of the eurb as located by Ordinance of the City 
of Alameda. : 


Section 182: Term Driver As Used Herein. The word Driver 
shall be held to mean the rider or driver of a horse, the rider of a 
wheel or motorcycle and the operator of a motor vehicle, automo- 
bile or ear. 


Section 183: Article Not Applicable to Street Cars or Vehicles 
On Fixed Tracks. The provisions of this article shall not be held 
to apply to street cars or any vehicle which from its nature and 
construction is required to proceed in, upon and along the streets 
on fixed tracks. 


Section 184: Limits of District No.1. District Number 1 shall 
embrace the following streets: All of Park Street from the south 
line of San Jose Avenue to the bridge at the north end of street, 
and all streets and avenues running east and west from and in- 
cluding the south side of Lincoln Avenue to and including the 


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south side of San Jose Avenue from the west line of Walnut 
Street to the east line of Regent and Everett Streets. 


Section 185: Limits of District No. 2. District Number 2, shall 
embrace the following streets: Fifty feet east and west of the 
property line of Webster Street from the south line of Central 
Avenue to the north line of Eagle Avenue. District No. 2 shall 
embrace 150 feet east and west of the center line of Webster 
Street. 


Section 186: General Rule of Road When Not Overtaking Or 
Passing Other Vehicles. [very vehicle except when overtaking 
and passing another vehicle shall keep to the right and shall tra- 
vel on the right of the center line of the street and as near to the 
eurb as practicable. 


Section 187: Driver of One Vehicle Overtaking Another. 
Every driver of a vehicle overtaking and passing another vehicle 
going in the same direction shall in doing so pass on the left side 
of the vehicle so overtaken and passed. 


Section 188: Driver of Vehicle About to Be Passed or Over- 
taken. When requested or signalled so to do any driver of a 
vehicle traveling on any street or public way shall as soon as 
practicable turn to the right, so as to allow an overtaking and 
passing vehicle free passage to the left of the overtaken vehicle. 


Section 189: Driver Wishing to Stop or Change Course. The 
driver of any vehicle wishing to stop his vehicle or change his 
course of travel shall before doing so signify such wish to any 
person or persons in his rear by a signal which shall plainly in- 
dicate an intention and desire to stop such vehicle or change its 
course of travel. 


Section 190: Driver Turning to Right Into Another Street. 
Every vehicle turning to the right into another street shall keep 
as near to the right hand curb as possible and every such vehicle 
turning to the right shall have the right of way over vehicles 
traveling in the direction to which such vehicle is turning. 


Section 191: Driver Turning to Left Into Another Street. 
Every vehicle turning to the left into another street shall keep 
to the right of the center line of the intersection of such streets, 


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and such vehicle turning shall give the right of way to vehicles 
traveling in the direction to which such vehicle is turning. 


Section 192: Driver Starting or Turiinjs From Curb. No vehi- 
ele standing at or alongside of the curb of any street or public 
way shall start or turn from such curb until the driver thereof shall 
have given a signal which shall plainly indicate his intention and 
desi e to start or turn from such curb. 


Section 193: Right of Way of Vehicles Traveling Easterly 
or Westerly. All vehicles traveling in an easterly or westerly 
direction shall have the right of way over those traveling in a 
northerly or southerly direction. 


Section 194: Right of Way of Fire and Police Departments 
United States Mail, and Emergency Vehicles. The apparatus 
and all vehicles of the Fire Department, all vehicles of the Police 
Department, all vehicles carrying United States mail, all ambu- 
lances and other vehicles carrying sick or injured persons, and 
all emergency repair wagons shall have the right of way over all 
other vehicles and through all processions, and shall be exempt 
from provisions of Section 204 of this Ordinance. 


Section 195: Duty of Approach of Fire or Police Vehicles. 
Upon the approach of any of the apparatus or vehicles of the 
Fire Department or Police Department when responding to a eall 
and when a signal gong is being sounded every street ear within 
100 feet shall immediately stop and every vehicle shall imme- 
diately stop and every vehicle shall immediately move to a posi- 
tion as near the right hand curb as possible and remain there 
until such apparatus or vehicle has passed. 


Section 196: Duty Near Fire Hydrant. No vehicle shall be 
left standing nor any horse left hitched within 25 feet of any aoe 
hydrant for any period of time whatever. 


Section 197: Time Allowed Vehicles to Be Backed Up to Curb. 
within the district designated as District No. 1 no vehicle shall be 
left backed up to the curb except while such vehicle is being act- 
ually loaded or unloaded and then only when the horse or horses 
are swung around at right angles to the vehicle and facing in the 
direction in which traffic is moving on the side of the street on 
which the vehicle is standing. The time allowed for loading and 


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unloading within the limits of this district except in cases of 
emergency shall in no case exceed a reasonable length of time. 


Section 198: Necessity to Be Loading or Unloading When 
Backed Up to Curb. No vehicle shall remain backed up to the 
curb except while being actually loaded or unloaded on any of 
the streets of the City of Alameda. 


Section 199: Speed Limit Over Crossings and Around Corners. 
No vehicle shall be driven over any crossing or intersection of 
streets or around a corner of a street at a greater speed than 6 
miles an hour within the limits of District Numbers 1 and 2, and 
all vehicles must at all times be handled with due regard for the 
conditions of traffic at the time and place, and the safety of ped- 
estrians, and all vehicles of whatever description shall be subject 
to the orders of the Police Officer on duty in that vicinity. 


Section 200: Duty on Approach of Car or Train to Station. 
Upon the approach of any car or train of cars at any railroad 
station in the City of Alameda, every vehicle within 150 feet of 
such station, shall immediately move to a position as near the 
right hand curb as possible and remain there until such car or 
train of cars has passed. 


Section 201: Stopping Vehicles In Street. Except in cases of 
emergency or when ordered to do so by a public officer, or for the 
purpose of allowing another vehicle or pedestrian or pedestrians 
to eross, no vehicle shall stop in any street except close to the 
curb thereof and then not within 20 feet of the line of intersection 
of any cross street. 


Section 202: Duty Not to Drive on Sidewalk. No vehicle shall 
be ridden or driven on, along or across any sidewalk in the City 
of Alameda, provided, however, that wagons loaded with build- 
mg materials may be driven over sidewalks where the same have 
been properly protected from breakage by a covering of planks 
securely fastened; and provided further, that this provision does 
not refer to regular driveways across sidewalks. 


Section 203: Driving Near Standing Street Car. No vehicle 
shall be driven within 4 feet of the running board or lower step 
of any street car or interurban car that may have stopped to 
take on or discharge passengers. 


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section 204: General Speed Limit—Exception As to Physic- 
ians. No vehicle shall be allowed to be driven or run over any of 
the streets in the districts designated as Numbers 1 and 2 at a 
greater rate of speed than 10 miles an hour and on crossings as 
per Section 199 of this Ordinance. In all other parts of the City 
of Alameda, no vehicle or ear shall be allowed to be driven or run 
at a greater rate of speed than 18 miles per hour. The provisions 
of this section shall not apply to vehicles of physicians when such 
physicians are responding to a professional call. 


Section 205: Leaving Horses or Vehicles Alone on Streets. No 
horse or vehicle shall be left standing on any street in the district 
designated as District No. 1 for a greater’ period of time than a 
reasonable time, and in no case over three hours, unless during 
such time, such horse or vehicle is securely hitched or placed or 
in the immediate care of some person of suitable age and discre- 
tion. (As amended by Ord. No. 2 N. 8.) 


section 206: Driving Vehicles Tandem. Between the hours of 
8 o’clock a. m. and 6 o’clock p. m. of any day within the district 
designated as District No. 1, it shall be unlawful to drive 2 or 
more freight vehicles hitched together tandem, or any freight 
vehicle drawn by more than 4 horses, or any hay wagon or oil 
wagon or any freight vehicle the total length of which together 
with its load shall exceed 24 feet, or the total width of which shall 
exceed 8 feet, or any vehicle filled with earth unless such earth 
has been taken from some excavation within said District No. 1, 
in which case such vehicle must at the first opportunity leave said 
District No. 1 and proceed to its destination by some other route; 
the provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles transport- 
ing materials to be used in the construction or repair of buildings 
within said District No. 1. 


Section 207: Garbage Vehicles on Streets at Certain Times. 
Between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 6 o’clock p. m. of any 
day within the districts designated as Districts Numbers 1 and 2. 
no vehicle used for the collection or transportation of garbage. 
swill or other refuse or objectionable matter shall be driven or al- 
lowed to stand on any street in said Districts Numbers 1 and 2. 

Section 208: Leaving Horses Unattended on Street.’ No horse 
shall be left unattended on any streets in the City of Alameda 


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unless securely hitched by a rope, strap or chain attached to its 
neck and to a post or other suitable fastening at the curb, or by a 
rope, strap or chain attached to its neck and to a suitable weight 
of not less than 10 pounds or in case of one or two horses being 
harnessed to a wagon fitted with a suitable brake, the horses may 
be backed, the: brake set and the lines or reins so fastened that the 
wagon cannot be drawn forward by the horse or horses except by 
means of the lines or reins. 


Section 209: Hitching Horses to Shade Trees, Lamp Posts, Etc. 
No horses shall be hitched on any street in the City of Alameda to 
any shade or ornamental tree, lamp post or electroher, or other 
fixture used for purposes of illumination, or in such a manner that 
any damage may be done to any such tree, or to any grass plot or 
other improvement located in the space between the curb and 
sidewalk. 


Section 210: Feeding of Horses on Street. No horse shall be 
fed upon any of the streets of the City of Alameda except by 
means of a feed bag fastened upon the head of such horse. 


Section 211: Drayage Vehicles Standing on Streets. No ve- 
hicle used for the transportation of freight, baggage or merchand- 
ise, shall be allowed to stand on any of the streets in the district 
designated as District No. 1 except when actually loading or un- 
loading. 


Section 212: Driving Unbroken or Dangerous Horses on 
Streets. No person shall ride or drive any dangerous or unbroken 
or partially broken horse or use the street for the pupose of break- 
ing any horse on any of the streets in the districts designated as 
Districts Numbers 1 and 2. 


Section 213: Driving Across Newly Laid Pavements. No per- 
son shall ride or drive any horse, bicycle or vehicle over or across 
any pavement newly laid, across or around which there has been 
placed a barrier, or at or near which there is a person or a sign 
warning persons against riding or driving over such pavement, or 
a sign stating that the street is closed. The provisions of this Or- 
dinance shall not apply to the contractor or his employees act- 
ually engaged in the laying of such pavement. 


Section 214: Hindering or Delaying Street Cars. No person 
shall drive or propel, or stop any horse or vehicle on any street 


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in the City of Alameda over which are operated any street cars 
or interurban cars in such a manner as to unnecessarily hinder or 
delay the operation of such cars; provided, however, the vehicles 
of the Police and Fire Departments, and ambulances shall have 
the right of way when responding to eall. 


Section 215: Mufflers on Automobiles, Etc. No automobile. 
motor vehicle or motor cycle shall have its mufflers open while i's 
machinery is in motion. 


Section 216: Unattended Motor Vehicles. No automobile or 
other motor vehicle shall be left unattended on any street in the 
City of Alameda while any part of its machinery is running. 


section 217: Age, Discretion and Condition of Person to Be 
Left in Charge of Vehicle. No vehicle shali be allowed to be in 
charge as driver of any person who is not of suitable age and dis- 
eretion or in proper condition, physically or mentally, to properly 
manage and drive such vehicle. 


Section 218: Obstructing Processions. No person shall ob- 
struct or hinder or ride or drive any vehicle through any civil, 
military, or funeral procession, and the disposition and handling 
of all horses, vehicles and cars on any streets over which any such 
procession wishes to pass shall be entirely subject to the orders 
of the Police Officers on duty at the time and place. The provi- 
sions of this section shall not, however, apply to the apparatus or 
vehicles of the Police or Fire Departments when responding to a 
eall. 


Section 219: Riding Rear End of Vehicle. No person shall 
ride or attempt to ride on the rear end of any vehicle without the 
permission of the driver of such vehicle. 


Section 220: Maintaining and Using Signals or Gongs. No au- 
tomobile, motor vehicle or bicycle shall be ridden, driven, or oper- 
ated over any of the streets of the City of Alameda, unless such 
automobile, motor cycle or bicycle is equipped with a suitable 
horn or gong or other signal in good working order and such sig- 
nal must be sounded to give warning to pedestrians and the riders 
and drivers of other vehicles and to persons entering or alighting 
from street cars, of the approach of such automobile. motor vehi- 
cle or bicycle and such warning signal shall in no case be given 


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except when necessary. The provisions of this Section shall not 
apply to children’s tricycles, invalid chairs and baby carriages. 


Section 221: Necessity For Motor Vehicles to Display Front 
And Rear Lights. No automobile or motor vehicle shall be al- 
lowed to be on any street in the City of Alameda during the per- 
iod of time from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise 
of the following day unless such automobile or motor vehicle shall 
display two lights in front showing white in the direction in which 
such automobile or motor vehicle is facing, and one red tail light 
in the reverse direction or towards the rear. The provisions of 
this section shall not apply to bicycles or motorcycles. 


Section 222: Necessity For Bicycles, Motor Cycles and Horse 
Drawn Vehicles to Display Lights—Exception As to Police 
Vehicles. No bicycle, motorcycle or horse drawn vehicle shall be 
allowed to be on any street in the City of Alameda during the per- 
iod of time from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise 
of the following day unless such bicycle, motor eyele or horse 
drawn vehicle shall display a light or lights plainly visible in both 
directions. The provisions of this section shall not apply to bicy- 
cles or motor cycles ridden by police officers while on duty. 


Section 223: Necessity For Permit to Allow Vehicles to Stand 
In Streets. No vehicle used for the purpose of carrying passen- 
gers for hire shall be allowed to stand in or upon any street unless 
the owner or operator of such vehicle shall have first secured a 
permit in writing from the Board of Police Commissioners and 
such permit shall be shown on demand to any Police Officer, and 
the operation, and the location of the stands of such vehicles shall 
be in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Board of 
Police Commissioners shall adopt; provided, that such permit 
shall in no wise exempt the driver or owner of such vehicle from 
taking out the usual license otherwise provided for. 


Section 224: Use of Vehicles Used For Vending. No vehicle 
used for the purpose of vending merchandise, meats, fruits, vege- 
tables, confectionery or other vehicle commonly known shall as a 
peddler’s cart or wagon, shall be allowed to stand on any street or 
sidewalk. The provisions of this section shall not apply to pea- 
nut. candy and ice cream hand-earts where the owners thereof 
have obtained permission from the Chief of Police to maintain 


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such hand-carts on Park Street between Lincoln and Encinal Ave- 
nues shall be given. 


Section 225: Vehicles Transporting Crude Oil. No vehicle 
used for the transportation of crude oil or any of its products in 
tanks shall be allowed in or upon any of the streets of the City 
of Alameda, unless such vehicles are provided with drip pans 
under the faucets of such tanks to prevent the leakage of the con- 
tents of the tank upon the street, and such tanlts must be in all 
eases so arranged and handled that no leakage of any kind can 
occur. 


Section 226: Vehicles Transporting Sand, Gravel, or Liquid 
Substances. No vehicle carrying sand, gravel, earth, rock or any 
loose or liquid substance liable to fall, sift or spill out shall be 
allowed on any of the streets of the City of Alameda unless the 
vehicle is so constructed or the load thereon so secured as to pre- 
vent the falling, sifting or spilling of any of its contents upon the 
street over which it is passing. 


Section 227: Limiting Weight of Load. No person shall.carry 
or cause to be carried on any vehicle in any street of the City of 
Alameda a load the weight whereof exceeds six tons unless such 
load consists of an article which cannot be divided. 


Section 228: Width of Vehicle Tires. No person shall, on any 
street in the City of Alameda, cause or permit to be carried, 
hauled or drawn on any truck, dray, wagon, or other vehicle be- 
longing to him or in his charge, or under his control, any load ex- 
ceeding two thousand pounds in weight, unless the tires to the 
wheels of such truck, dray, wagon, or other vehicles, shall be at 
least two inches in width, and when a load exceeding two thous- 
and not exceeding five thousand pounds is carried the tires shall 
be at least three inches in width, and at least four inches in width 
when a load exceeding seven thousand pounds is carried, and at 
least five inches in width when a load exceeding ten thousand 
pounds and not exceeding fourteen thousand pounds is carried. 


Section 229: Driving More Than Two Vehicles. No person 
shall act as driver or be in charge of, while in motion, of more 
than two vehicles on any of the streets of the City of Alameda; pro- 
vided. however, that between the hours of 5 P. M. and 8 A. M. of 
the following day, one driver may be in charge of more than two 


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vehicles passing over the streets in going to and from the stables 
where such vehicles are kept. 


Section 230: Driving Vehicles on Public Streets in Reckless 
or Dangerous Manner. It shall be unlawful for any person to 
drive and operate any vehicle on the public streets of the City of 
Alameda in a reckless and dangerous manner. 


Section 231: Neglecting or Refusing to Stop When So Direct- 
ed. No driver of a vehicle shall neglect or refuse to stop said ve- 
hicle when so directed by a police officer. 


Section 232: Duty of Police Department to Enforce. It shall 
be the duty of the members of the Police Department to enforce 
the provisions of this article and to see that the rules herein laid 
down are strictly enforced except in case of an emergency. In 
such case these rules may be waived and the discretion of the pol- 
ice officer or police officers or Policemen on duty at the particular 
point where such emergency shall arise shall be exercised so as to 
prevent accident, a blockade or any impeding of traffic. 


Section 233: Violation Constitutes a Misdemeanor. Every 
person who shall violate any of the provisions of this article or 
who shall neglect, fail or refuse to comply with any order or dir- 
ection of any police officer or police officer on, upon or along any 
street or public way, where such order or direction is given for 
the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions or any of the 
provisions of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 8—CONCERNING ELECTRIC AND STEAM RAIL- 
ROADS. 


Section 234: Regulating Speed of Electric Cars. No person, 
firm, or corporation shall cause or permit any car propelled by 
electricity, under the management of said person or corporation, 
to travel at a rate of speed exceeding eight miles per hour on that 
portion of Park street, in the City of Alameda, between Encinal 
avenue and Lincoln avenue. 


Section 235: Motorman to Sound a Gong Before Reaching 
Street Crossings. It shall be the duty of every motorman, or 
other employe having charge of any electric device, on any street 
ear propelled by electricity in the City of Alameda, to sound a 


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gong on said car 100 feet from and before reaching any street 
crossing. 


Section 236: Prohibiting Railroad Cars or Trains to Remain 
On or Block Street Crossings. No person, firm or corporation 
shall cause or allow any railroad car, or train, to remain or stand 
on any public street crossing in the City of Alameda longer than 
five minutes at a time. 


Section 237: Trespassing Upon Railroad Cars, Locomotives or 
Trains. It shall be unlawful for any person, not a passenger or 
employe of or thereunto authorized by the corporation, firm or 
person operating any railroad car, locomotive or train within the 
City of Alameda, to enter or attempt to enter into or upon such 
railroad car, locomotive or train. 


Section 238: Prohibiting Minors From Getting On or Off Mov- 
ing Cars. No person under the age of twenty-one (21) years shall, 
in the City of Alameda, get on or off of any moving car or train 
propelled by steam or electricity. 


Section 239: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate the 
provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 9—THE REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS ON, OVER OR 
ALONG PUBLIC STREETS OR PUBLIC PLACES. 


Section 240: Removal of Buildings. No person, firm or cor- 
poration shall move or cause to be moved any building in the City 
of Alameda, on, over or along any public street or highway there- 
in, except having first complied with the provisions hereof. 


Section 241: Obtaining Consent of Certain Property Owners. 
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to move or have removed 
a building shall first obtain the written assent to such removal 
from persons owning a majority of feet front or lots in same block 
or same street in which it is proposed to locate such removed 
building, and also a majority of persons owning front feet oppo- 
site the proposed location and within one hundred and fifty (150) 
feet of the same, which assent shall be filed with the City Clerk. 

Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any per- 
son removing a building upon his own premises, and not going 


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upon the premises of any other person, or upon any street, alley 
or other public place in making such removal. 


Section 242: Permit For Removal—Indemnity Bond. No per- 
son, firm or corporation shall move, or cause to be moved, on, over 
or through any public street or highway in said city, any build- 
ing from the City Council permit in writing so to do. Such 
permit shall be isuued upon presentation of the written 
assent, to the removal of such building, as provided for 
in Section 241 of this article, or upon the waiver of such as- 
sent by City Council, and shall not be issued until after the per- 
son, firm or corporation so applying therefor shall have first de- 
livered to the City Clerk a bond, running to the City of Alameda, 
in the sum of two hundred ($200) dollars, with at least two good 
and sufficient sureties, approved by the President of the City Coun- 
cil, which bond shall be conditioned that the party so desiring to 
move buildings in said city will strictly comply with all the condi- 
tions and requirements of this ordinance and of any ordinances 
hereafter passed regulating house moving and of any order, rule 
or regulation concerning house moving that may hereafter be 
passed by the City Council, and that said party will pay any and 
all damages which may result by reason of any house moving in 
the City of Alameda by said party, his agents, employes or work- 
men, to any fence, tree, pavement, streets, sidewalk, horse ear, 
cable, electric or steam railroad line, or to any télegraph pole or 
wire belonging to the City of Alameda, or belonging to any tele- 
graph or telephone company having a franchise in said city, and 
conditioned further that said party, said principal, will save, in- 
demnify and keep harmless the City of Alameda against all liabil- 
ities, judgments, costs and expenses which may in anywise accrue 
against said city in consequence of the granting of such permit, 
and will in all things strictly comply with the conditions of such 
permit. Any such bond filed by any person, firm or corporation 
shall operate as a bond for the purposes required by this ordin- 
ance for the term of one (1) year from the date of filing thereof, 
in so far that no other or additional bond need be given by such 
party for the removal of houses in said city during the said period 
of one (1) year, and at the expiration of said year, a new bond 
shall be required to be filed by such party before the issuance to 
such party of any permits hereunder. 


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Such permit shall specify the character of the building to be re- 
moved, the place from which and to which said building 1s to be 
moved, and the street on, over or through which such removal 
may be made; and said building shall not be moved on, over or 
through any other streets, except those named in said permit. 


Section 248: Care And Diligence Required. All removals 
made under such permits shall be done in a careful manner, and 
shall be prosecuted with diligence, and shall be under the super- 
intendence and control and to the satisfaction and approval of the 
Superintendent of Streets. 


Section 244: Limiting The Standing of Such Building. No 
person, firm or corporation owning or having charge of the re- 
moval of any building through the public streets, shall permit said 
building to be or stand on any street, lane, alley or public 
erounds within the limits of one block for a longer period than 
twenty-four (24) hours. 


Section 245: Prohibiting injury to Other Property. No per- 
son, firm or corporation owning or having charge of the removal 
of any building through the public streets shall allow or cause the 
injury of any street, sidewalk, curb, tree, fence or private re-_ 
moval. 


Section 246: Obstruction of Street Car Traffic. No person, 
firm or corporation owning or having charge of the removal of 
any building shall permit the same to obstruct any horse car, cable 
road or electric road in operation, nor the line of any steam rail- 
road, except between the hours of 1 A. M. and 5 A. M. 


Section 247: Cutting of Wires. When the cutting or tempo- 
rary removal of any pole or poles of any public or private tele- 
graph, telephone, electric light wire, or any other wire passing 
along or over any street, lane or alley, becomes necessary for the 
removal of any building, the person in charge of such removal, at 
least six (6) hours in advance of reaching the same, shall notify 
the person or persons having charge of and control over such wire 
or wires, and the person so notified shall cause such wires to be 
promptly cut or removed and replaced. 

Provided, however, that in every case in which the cutting of 
the wires of the City of Alameda may be necessary the City Elec- 
trician shall be notified, and he shall have the wires cut and re- 


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placed, the person or persons having charge of the removal of the 
buildings paying the entire cost and expense of the cutting, re- 
moval and replacing of the same. 


Section 248: Revocation of Permit. The City Council may, at 
any time, for such cause as they, or a majority of them, upon in- 
vestigation, deem sufficient, revoke any permission or license 
granted under this section; and it is specially ordained and de- 
clared that all such permits and licenses granted in accordance 
with the provisions of this article, although granted for the nom- 
inal term of one (1) year, are held at the pleasure of said City 
Council. 


Section 249: Misdemeanor. Every person violating any pro- 
vision of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 10—SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS THEREWITH. 


Section 250: Duty to Connect Houses With Sewer. Every per- 
son owning, controlling, or occupying land on which a house or 
tenement is constructed, and which fronts on any open street in 
the City of Alameda in which there is a public sewer, shall, within 
thirty days after the acceptance of such sewer by the City Coun- 
cil of said city, have said house or tenement is constructed and 
which fronts on any open street in the City of Alameda, in which 
there is a public sewer, shall within thirty days after the accept- 
ance of such sewer by the city council of said city, had said house 
or tnenment connected with such sewer in such a manner that all 
sewer waste from such tenement shall be drained into said public 
sewer. 


Section 251: Maintenance of Privy Vault After Construction 
of Sewer. No person shall maintain any cesspool or privy vault 
on any land owned, controlled, or occupied by him, fronting on 
any open street in the City of Alameda in which there is a public 
sewer, for any period of time longer than thirty days after the 
acceptance of such sewer by the City Council of said city. 


Section 252: By Whom Sewer Connections Shall Be Made. All 
construction and installation of house connecting sewers in pub- 
lic highways in the City of Alameda, from the street sewer to the 
property line shall be made by the City of Alameda through the 


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office of the Street Superintendent thereof and no person, except 
as herein provided, shall make, construct or install any house con- 
necting sewer in any public highway, between the street sewer 
and the property line, nor make any excavation in any public 
highway or street for the purpose of installing any such house con- 
necting sewer. 


Section 253: Necessity to Apply For Connection And Deposit 
Fee. Any person who shall require the construction of a house 
connecting sewer between the property line and the street sewer 
shall make application therefor at the offic of the Street Superin- 
tendent at least six (6) days before the connection is required, 
and shall deposit the fee for such sewer as hereinafter established. 
The Street Superintendent shall thereupon cause such sewer to be 
constructed by workmen employed in his Department and in ac- 
cordance with the Ordinances, Rules and Regulations prescribed 
therefor. 


Section 254: Fees For Connecting Sewers. The following fees 
are hereby fixed and established for the work of constructing and 
completing all house connecting sewers between the street sewer 
and the property line: For unimproved streets the sum of Fifteen 
($15.00) Dollars; for macadamized or gravel streets the sum of 
Twenty ($20.00) Dollars; for asphalt or bittwnen pavements the 
sum of Twenty ($20.00) Dollars, together with an additional fif- 
teen (15) cents per square foot of surface disturbed and restored. 
The fees above mentioned shall be in full payment for all the work 
and material necessary to install such house connecting sewers 
from the street sewer to the property line and the necessary ex- 
cavation and restoration of the street, and shell be paid into the 
Street Fund. 


Section 255: How Sewers to Be Constructed. All sewers, un- 
less otherwise ordered, shall be constructed in accordance with 
the provisions of this article. 

All sewers, except as otherwise shown in the map made by H. 
Schussler, and marked by the Clerk of this Board ‘‘Filed July 3d, 
1885,’’ shall be constructed of glazed vitritied ironstone sewer 
pipe, and shall be laid with the elevations and grades shown on 
said map, the base referred to in said map being the same base 
established by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Alameda by 


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Ordinance No. 160, passed by said Board January 9th. 1877, and 
the size of each sewer shall be as shown on said map, unless other- 
wise ordered. 


Section 256: General Specifications For Sewers. The trench 
for each sewer shall be excavated to within two inches of the 
grades of the inside bottom of the pipe for six-inch and eight-inch 
pipes, within three inches for ten-inch and twelve-inch pipes, and 
within four inches for larger pipes, and the trench at said depth 
must have a uniform width equal to two and one-half times the 
outer diameter of the pipe, and the bottom, wherever it is firm, be 
trimmed to a smooth grade by the use of a straight edge and level. 
Out of this flat bottom, wherever the ground is sufficiently solid, 
the bed for the pipe must be carefully excavated, so that when 
the pipe is laid it shall be upon the proper grade, as shown on said 
map, and have a solid bearing. As the pipe-laying progresses, 
wherever the ground is sufficiently solid, a joint hole, commencing 
at the back of the bell and reaching to a point two inches below 
the same and six inches forward of the front of the bell, must be 
excavated. All pipes and bells must be circular, not varying in 
form from a true circle more than one-twelfth of an inch for each 
three inches in diameter (inside measurement) of the pipe, sound 
and free from cracks, and well glazed, and the pipes must be 
straight, not varying from a straight line more than one-eighth 
of an inch in a length of two feet, and free from defects. The 
pieces of pipe in each sewer must be of uniform length and the 
net length when laid must be not less than two feet, or within an 
inch thereof; the depth of the bell must be uniform, and in pipes 
sIx inches or more in diameter not less than an inch and three- 
quarters, and in other pipes not less than an inch and a half. The 
inside of the bell and the outer edge of it must not be glazed, and 
the nipple end of the pipe, on the outside, fer a length of four 
inches, must not be glazed. The pipe must be firmly bedded in the 
excavation in the bottom of the trench and on the true grade. 
The nipple end of the next pipe must be inserted in the bell of 
the former to the full depth of the bell, the play in the bell being 
equally divided around the pipe. <A gasket of oakum, or of un- 
raveled old rope, must be placed in successive layers around the 
nipple end of the new pipe and tightly rammed into the bell to 
the bottom thereof, and the gasket must have a depth of half an 


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inch ailer ramming, carefully dividing the play in the bell equally 
around the circumference; the balance of the play in the bell and 
the front or face of the same must be filled with cement mortar, 
composed of one part of best Portland cement and one and one-half 
paris of clean sharp sand (free from galt). The mortar in the bell 
must be pressed into the same carefully, in successive layers, with 
the fingers, and a rounding mortar joint of the same kind of mor- 
tar built up all around the pipe and in front of the bell, reaching 
from the outer edge of the same to a distance of not less than 
three inches on the new pipe. All mortar must be mixed only in 
small batches, as the work progresses, so as to be entirely fresh at 
all times when used. Under no circumstances is any old or partly 
set mortar to be mixed up in the same. The filling of the trench 
must be very carefully done, dry earth, sand, or clay (but not 
loam) being carefully packed around the joints and on the sides 
and on top of the pipe in successive thin layers. No walking over 
the pipe must be allowed until this filling has reached a depth of 
at least one foot over the top of the pipe, and no ramming until it 
has reached a depth of eighteen inches over the top of the pipe; 
the balance of the material excavated must be replaced in the 
trench and rammed down in successive layers. As the work of 
filling the trenches progresses, the earth filled in must be thor- 
oughly saturated with water; provided, that no water shall be 
used till the lapse of twenty-four hours after the cementing of the 
joints. Should the bottom of the ditch be soft, a piece of black- 
heart redwood plank, one and one-half inches thick must be laid 
across the ditch underneath the pipe and immediateiy back of 
the bell, the width of the plank being equal to the diameter of the 
pipe, the length equal to three times the diameter, and the top of 
the plank being on the proper grade of the bottom of the pipe. 
Two beveled cleats of redwood must be nailed on this plank, with 
galvanized nails, in such a manner as to prevent any lateral mo- 
tion of the pipe; provided, that if in any case the Superintendent 
shall require it, so much additional lumber or other materials as 
he may direct shall be used in making a secure foundation, and 
the same shall be placed as he may direct. The contractor shall 
pump out or otherwise remove any water or sewage which may be 
found or shall accumulate in the trench, and shall construct dams 
or other works necessary for keeping the excavation clear of 
water and sewage during the progress of the work. The sides of 


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the excavation shall be supported with suitable planking and 
bracing, wherever necessary, and in such manner as to prevent the 
caving in of the sides of the trench. All dead ends of the sewer 
and openings along its line must be securely closed with earthen- 
ware stoppers, made for the purpose, so as to exclude sand and 
other materials. During the suspension of the work at night and 
other times, a stopper must be placed in the end of the pipe last 
laid to prevent earth and other substances from getting in. The 
sewer, after being laid, must be water tight at all points, and any 
leaks or other defects discovered at any time must be immediately 
repaired. Any pipe which has been disturbed, from any cause, 
must be taken up, the joints cleaned, and relaid. No part of the 
sewer shall be laid in water, nor shall water be allowed in or 
around it until the lapse of twenty-four hours after the cementing 
of the joints. The interior of the sewer shall be carefully freed 
from all cement, dirt, and superfluous material of every descrip- 
tion, as the work proceeds, for which purpose a disc, mould or 
swab, filling the entire core of the pipe, and attached to a rod suf- 
ficiently long to pass two joints from the end of the pipe last laid, 
shall be continuously worked through. All sand or earthy matter 
or other materials which may remain on the surface of the im- 
proved roadway, after the trench has been filled up, shall be care- 
fully removed by the contractor. The contractor shall have 
charge of and be responsible for the entire line of work until its 
completion and acceptance, and whenever the Superintendent of 
Streets may require it, openings shall be made for examination, 
the expense of which and of properly closing the openings 
shall be defrayed by the contractor. The ends of the pipe, when 
laid in the trench, shall abut squarely and closely against each 
other. No building must be connected with any street sewer 
until such sewer has been completed and has been accepted by the 
eity. 


Section 257: How Manholes to be Constructed. Manholes 
must be constructed at such points as may be specified, and unless 
otherwise specified as herein provided, they must be built of the 
best hard-burned brick, laid in mortar composed of one part of 
the best Portland cement and two parts of clean, sharp sand, free 
from salt, calculating two barrels of cement and four barrels of 
sand for one thousand bricks, or in that proportion. No lime 


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shall be mixed with the mortar. The body of the manhole must 
be three feet in the clear inside, the walls being eight inches thick, 
every other course being a header. The bottom and inside and 
outside of the manhole must be plastered with cement mortar of 
the same kind, the thickness of such plastering to be three-eighths 
of an inch. The bottom of the manhole must be arranged inside 
and the manhole constructed as shown on the sheet marked ‘‘Sew- 
erage of Alameda; Sketches of Details, Sheet A. Filed by the 
City Clerk, in his office, July 3d, 1885.’’ The manhole must have 
a cast-iron cover such as is indicated on the sheet marked ‘‘A,’’ 
filed by the City Clerk in his office, July 27th, 1885, except that 
the size of said cover shall be as shown on said sheet marked 
‘‘Sewerage of Alameda; Sketches of Details, Sheet A.’’ Pro- 
vided, that the cover must also be perforated with not less than 
sixteen holes, one inch in diameter on the upper side and one inch 
and an eighth on the under side—the holes all being within a rad- 
ius of five inches—and must be provided with a concave sheet-iron 
dust catcher, fourteen inches in diameter, made of No. 12 iron, 
secured to the under side of the cover so as to extend under all 
the holes, by three hooks and eyebolts—the hook and eyebolts to 
be of not less than quarter-inch iron and the concave surface of 
the dust catcher to be upward. 


Section 258: Necessity For Two Y Branches-—How Con- 
structed. Unless otherwise ordered each street sewer must have 
two Y branches placed alternately on opposite sides of the sewer 
for every fifty feet in length thereof, at such points as the Super- 
intendent of Streets may direct, as the work progresses; provided, 
that there shall be no branches placed at street crossings nor with- 
in twenty-five feet of a street crossing unless otherwise specified. 
The Y piece must be so set that the center line of the branch in- 
clines about 25 deg. with the horizon. <A four-inch ouse connec- 
tion of the same kind of pipe as the street sewer, and having a 
uniform and even diameter of four inches, must be connected with 
each branch, by means of a short curved pipe of the same kind 
and size, and must be extended to the line of the street, on the 
same side of the sewer, and must be laid with such a grade as the 
Superintendent of Streets shall direct as the work progresses, un- 
less otherwise specified. The pipe must be laid and the joints 
made and the pipes secured in the same way as hereinbefore 


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specified for street sewers, and the filling done in the same man- 
ner, so far as practicable, and to the satisfaction of the Superin- 
tendent of Streets. The upper end of the house connections must 
be securely capped so as to keep all dirt out of the pipes. 


Section 259: Construction of Sewer Connections. All sewer 
connections shall be constructed as follows: The pipe running to 
the building shall be connected with the pipe extending from the 
street sewer to the property line, as hereinbefore provided, and 
shall be of the same size, to wit, four inches in diameter inside 
measurement, and shall be laid in the same manner and in accord- 
ance with the same specifications as the street sewers, and shall 
rise with a uniform grade until the house is reached, where a ver- 
tical light three-inch cast-iron pipe with lead joints, or a gav- 
vanized iron pipe three inches in diameter, with all joints soldered 
air tight, must be connected with the four-inch sewer pipe by 
means of a T piece. This upright iron pipe must extend at least 
two feet above the plates of the main part of the building, so as 
to insure perfect ventilation of the sewers. 


Provided, further that such ventilating pipe shall extend at 
least three feet above any window or other opening of such build- 
ing. No traps whatsoever must be allowed in the four-inch house 
drain between this ventilating pipe and the street sewer. 


Provided, that in case of contiguous or adjoining buildings, 
one of which is one or more stories higher than the other, then a 
four-inch running trap, with a four-inch air inlet on the house 
side, shall be placed in the connecting house drain of the lower 
building near to and inside of said property line, and in such ease 
the said three-inch vertical pipe may be dispensed with. All 
waste pipes coming from the house, as soil pipes, pipes from bath 
tubs, washstands, kitchens, etc., must be separately trapped be- 
fore entering the main four-inch house drain, and none of them 
must enter between the ventilating pipe and the street sewer. 
The waste pipes from kitchens must discharge into large iron hop- 
pers, or be specially trapped by large grease traps sixteen inches 
deep, the discharge from which starts from the bottom of the ves- 
sel, and after running up the side thereof, has its outlet not more 
than three inches below the top. The capacity of the grease trap 
must be not less than one cubic foot, and it must have a movable 
cover, so that the cooled grease can be easily moved from the sur- 


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face. All water-closets connecting with sewers must be flush 
closets, which at each discharge send not less than one gallon of 
water suddenly into the sewer. 


Section 260: Nature of Sand And Cement to Be Used. In all 
work provided for in this ordinance where mortar is specified the 
sand used must be clean, sharp sand, free from salt, and if neces- 
sary the sand must be thoroughly washed with fresh water in 
order to make it so, and all cement used must be the best Portland 
cement. 


Section 261: Under Supervision of Street Superintendent. All 
work must be done and all materials furnished under the direc- 
tion of the Superintendent of Streets and to his satisfaction. 


Section 262: Removal And Disposition of Material. In open- 
ing any improved street or sidewalk for the purpose of laying any 
sewer. all materials used in improving such street or sidewalk 
must be removed with the least possible injury or loss of the same, 
and it and the other materials excavated must be so placed as to 
cause the least practicable inconvenience to the public. The ma- 
terial used in improving the surface must, when removed, be 
placed by itself and must be replaced by the contractor in the 
same manner in which it was originally, and the surface must be 
left in as good condition as it was before. No pipes shall be cov- 
ered nor any filling put into any trench till authorized by the 
Superintendent of Streets. All excavations shall be made under 
his direction, and only so much excavation in advance of the lay- 
ing of pipes and refilling of trenches shall be made as he may au- 
thorize. 


Section 263: Inspection of Material By Street Superintendent. 
All materials to be used in the construction of any sewer shall, 
after being brought upon the ground, be inspected by the Super- 
intendent of Streets before being used, and all materials rejected 
by him shall be at once removed from the premises by the con- 
tractor, and shall not be returned. 


Section 264: Maintenance of Red I.ight at Sewer Trenches. 
All contractors and other persons making any trench in any street 
for the purpose of laying a sewer shall at night keep a red light 
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night, and must take all other necessary precautions to guard 
people against all accidents and danger. 


Section 265: Not Deposit Filth, Etc., In Bay of San Francisco. 
No person shall cause any garbage, offal or dead animal to be de- 
posited in the Bay of San Francisco or any of its affluents or est- 
uaries, within the limits of the City of Alameda. 


Section 266: Prohibiting Discharge of Dyes And Acids Into 
Oakland Harbor. No person within the City of Alameda shall 
cause of permit any dye or acid, or other refuse, either liquid or 
solid, resulting from the operation of dyeing or tanning or pro- 
duced in the manufacture of gas, to be discharged into or depos- 
ited in any sewer, ditch, pipe or other passage communicating 
either directly or indirectly with the Estuary of San Antonio com- 
monly called Oakland Harbor. 


Section 267: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


CHAPTER V 


RELATING TO THE POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Article 1—THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. 


section 268: Duty of Police Department to Enforce Ordin- 
ances. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police and all Police 
Officers to carry out the provisions of this ordinance, and to cause 
the arrest of all persons violating any of the provisions thereof.. 


Section 269: How Sergeants and Detectives Are to Be De- 
tailed. The Chief of Police shall with the approval of the Board 
of Police and Fire Commissioners, detail three regular police of- 
ficers to act as Sergeants of police and two regular police officers 
to act as Detectives, and such detail or either thereof may be 
changed or revoked by the Chief of Police with the approval of 
the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. 


Section 270. Their Duties. In addition to the duties required 
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the police department of the City of Alameda, one of said Ser- 
geants shall attend to the collection of license taxes, and partic- 
ularly to the enforcement of the license ordinances, and shall ren- 
der whatever clerical assistance may be required in the office of 
the Chief of Police under his supervision and direction; another 
of said Sergeants shall perform the duties of Office Sergeant in the 
police office; and the other to act as office sergeant during the 
night and render such clerical assistance as may be required of 
him; the said detectives shall render such services in the detection 
of crime as may be required of them by the Chief of Police. 


Article 2—PROTECTION, SALE OR DISPOSITION OF LOST, 
STOLEN OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY. 


Section 271: Chief of Police As Custodian. The Chief of 
Police shall be the custodian of all lost, stolen and unclaimed pro- 
perty which may now be in his possession or under his control, 
or which may hereafter come into the possession of any police 
officer. 


Section 272: Duty of Police Officer on Receiving Property in 
Custody. Every police officer, upon taking or receiving into his 
custody, in the discharge of his duty, any money or property, 
shall forthwith deliver such money or property to the Chief of 
Police, who shall particularly register all such property delivered 
to or received by him in a book kept for that purpose, stating the 
name of the person from whom, and by whom, such article or par- 
cel shall have been taken, the name of all claimants of each article 
or parcel, the time of seizure, and the final disposition thereof. 


Section 273: Disposition of Property Taken From Prisoner. 
Whenever money or property shall have been taken from a person 
on suspicion that such person feloniously obtained the same, if, 
upon examination of the person suspected, the examining magis- 
trate shall be satisfied from the evidence that he is innocent, and 
that the money or property rightfully belongs to him, such magis- 
trate shall, in writing, order the Chief of Police or officer having 
charge of such money or property to return the same to the per- 
son accused. 


Section 274: Duty of Chief of Police And Superintendent to 
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Superintendent of Streets shall at the expiration of each fiscal 
year, make a report to the Council of all lost, stolen and unclaimed 
property which may be in his possession or under his control, and 
within thirty days after the date of such report he shall turn over 
to the Treasurer of the City of Alameda all property and money 
mentioned in such report, and take his receipt therefor. 


Section 275: Sale By City Treasurer of Property In His Pos- 
session. The City Treasurer shall from time to time sell all un- 
claimed property in his possession. Notice of such sales shall be 
published for ten days prior to the time of sale in the official news- 
paper of said city, which notices, shall specify the time and place 
of sale and briefly describe the property to be sold. When the 
name and address of the owner of any unclaimed property is 
known to said Treasurer he shall also mail a notice of such sale 
to said owner at least five days before the time of sale. If for 
any reason any of said property is not sold at the time set for the 
sale the sale thereof may be postponed from day to day or for any 
period of time not longer than ten days. In ease of postponement 
notice thereof shall be posted at the place of sale. 


Section 276: Duty to Sell The Same At Auction. After hav- 
ing duly published the advertisement provided for by the last sec- 
tion, the Treasurer shall, at the time and place designated in the 
advertisement, proceed to sell at auction, to the highest bidder, 
for gold or silver coin, the property described in said advertise- 
ment, and, after having paid the just and reasonable expenses for 
storage, advertising and sale, shall keep the proceeds for one year, 
subject to any lawful claim which may be made by the owner of 
any of the property sold. 


Section 277: Disposition of Proceeds of Sale. The Treasurer 
shall, at the expiration of one year after every sale hereunder 
made, pay into the General Fund all moneys remaining in his 
hands on account of such sale. 

Section 278: Right of Claimant of Property. The Justice of 
the Peace for the City of Alameda may hear and determine any 
complaint made by a person interested in the disposition of any 
money or property mentioned in this article, and may, upon hear- 
ing, direct the delivery of any money or property or the payment 
of the proceeds of the sale of any property to the person entitled 
thereto. 


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Section 279: Right to Deduct Costs And Charges. Upon the 
payment of the proceeds of the sale of any property to the per- 
son entitled thereto, the Treasurer shall deduct from the amount 
of such proceeds the just proportional share of the expenses of 
storage, advertisement, and sale. 


Article 3—REGULATING PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND- 
HAND DEALERS. 


Section 280: Duty of Pawnbrokers and Second-Hand Dealers 
To Keep Certain Records. Every person, firm or corporation buy- 
ing, selling or exchanging, receiving in pledge, or otherwise deal- 
ing in, whether as a separate business or in connection with other 
business, second-hand bicycles, precious stones, silverware, jew- 
elry, old gold or silver, clothing, tools, surgical, dental or drawing 
instruments or implements, firearms, junk or any of said articles 
in the City of Alameda shall keep at his place of business a record 
book, in which shall be entered, in the English language, at the 
time of purchase, sale, pledge or exchange of such articles, a des- 
eription of such articles bought, sold, pledged or exchanged suffi- 
cient to identify the same and the signature and the address of 
the person buying, selling, pledging or exchanging such articles, 
and, if an exchange be made, a description of the articles given in 
exchange as well as those received. 


Section 281: Necessity to Send Copy of Entries to Chief of 
Police. <A true copy of all entries made in said record book for 
the week previous shall be delivered to the Chief of Police by the 
person keeping said record book at least once a week. 


Section 282: Openness of Record Book to Inspectors. Said 
record book shall be open to the inspection of the Chief of Police 
or any police officer of the City of Alameda, at any time during 
business hours, and it is hereby declared to be unlawful for any 
person keeping said record book, or having the same in his cus- 
tody or control, to fail to produce the same and submit it to the 
inspection of such Chief of Police or Police Officer upon demand. 


Section 283: Necessity to Keep Articles For Ten Days. All 
articles mentioned in Section 280 of this ordinance received by 
purchase, pledge or exchange shall be kept by the person, firm or 


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corporation receiving the same at least ten days before the same 
are disposed of. 


Section 284: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 4—THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 


Section 285: Organization of The Fire Department. The Fire 
Department of the City of Alameda is hereby reorganized as fol- 
lows: : 

In addition to the Chief Engineer of said department there shall 
be and are hereby provided for and authorized, two (2) Assistant 
Chief Engineers, two (2) Engineers of Engines, two (2) As- 
sistant Engineers of Engines, six (6) Captains, eleven (11) 
Drivers of whom seven (7) to be designated by the Board of Pol- 
ice and Fire Commissioners, shall be Acting Lieutenants, eight 
(8) Truckmen and eighteen (18) Hosemen. 


Section 286: Creation of Office of Fire Marshal—Duties. 
There is also hereby created the office of Fire Marshal of the City 
of Alameda, which office shall be held and the duties thereof per- 
formed by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Departmnt of the City 
of Alameda, who shall be ex-officio Fire Marshal, but who shall 
receive no compensation therefor other than his salary as Chief 
of the Fire Department. 


section 287: Deputy Fire Marshals. The Fire Marshal shall 
have the power to appoint deputies, who shall receive no compen- 
sation or allowance of any kind from the city, and who may act 
in the place and stead of the Fire Marshal, subject to removal by 
the Fire Marshal. 


Section 288: Duty of Fire Marshal. It shall be the duty of the 
Fire Marshal, by himself or deputies, to attend to the enforcement 
of the provisions of this article and all other ordinances pertain- 
ing to the protection of the city from fire. 


Section 289: Right to Enter Upon Premises. The Fire Mar- 
shal, or his deputies, shall have the right to enter upon any prem- 
ises at all reasonable hours for the purpose of inspecting the same. 


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Section 290: Disposition of Ashes. It shall be unlawful for 
any person or persons to deposit any ashes, cause the same ot be 
deposited or placed, or to permit or suffer the same upon any 
premises owned, occupied or controlled by any such person, to 
be or remain in any wooden vessel or receptacle, or any vessel or 
receptacle composed or made of combustible material; but said 
ashes shall be placed and kept in some safe depository or recept- 
acle of galvanized iron or other incombustible material, and not 
less than two inches from any wood-work or structure, or depos- 
ited on the ground not less than ten feet from any wood building 
or structure or from any wooded fence, lumber, wood, hay, stram, 
or combustible material whatever. Portable receptacles shall 
have a clear air space of not less than two (2) inches below the 
bottom thereof. No combustible material shall be placed in re- 
ceptacles for ashes. 


Section 291: Receptacles For Waste. All receptacles for 
waste, rags, paper, and other substances liable by spontaneous 
combustion or otherwise, to cause fire, must be made of incombus- 
tible material, and if portable, must have a clear air space of not 
less than two (2) inches below the bottom. 


Section 292: Combustibles On Roof, In Yards or Lots. It shall 
be unlawful for any person to allow or permit to remain upon any 
roof, or in any yard, or on any vacant lot, in the City of Alameda, 
any accumulation of paper, hay, moss, or any other inflammable, 
or combustible rubbish or waste material of any description. 


Section 293: Storage of Gun-Powder. No person, firm or cor- 
poration shall permit the storage of or keep for sale, within any 
of the fire limits of the City of Alameda, any gun-powder, giant 
or blasting powder in larger quantities than fifty (50) pounds. 

All gunpowder- giant or blasting powder must be kept in cop- 
per cases within six feet and at the right hand side of the front 
entrance of the building where the same is kept. 

Section 294: Manufacture of Acids And Explosives. No per- 
son, firm or corporation shall maintain or conduct any factory or 
works within the City of Alameda for the manufacture of any 
gunpowder, dynamite, acid or other similar explosives. 

Section 295: Hay Yards, Planing Mills, Etc. No hay yard, 
planing mill, sawmill, lumber yard, or laundry, shall hereafter be 


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established within any of the fire limits of the City of Alameda. 
Provided, that upon proper showing that changing the location of 
any laundry now within the fire limits will reduce the fire risks, 
such laundry may be re-established at some other location within 
the fire iimits, upon permission being obtained from said Council. 


Section 296: Necessity For Permit For Factory or Steam Boil- 
er. No factory or steam boiler shall hereafter be established 
within any of the fire limits of said city unless a permit therefor 
is first obtained on proper showing from the said Council. 

Section 297: Safeguarding Hay, Straw, Shavings, Etc. Hvery 
person making, using or having the charge or control of hay, 
straw, shavings, sacks, bags, litter or any combustible material, 
or waste, or fragments, or refuse of a combustible character, shall, 
at the close of each day, cause the same to be securely stored or 
disposed of in such way as to safely protect the same from fire, 
and in such way as shall not endanger other property. 


Section 298: Dangerous Structures—Notice to Make Safe. 
Whenever, in the judgment of the Fire Marshal, any building or 
structure, or any portion thereof, or any appurtenances or fix- 
tures thereto, or any chimney, smoke-stack, stove, oven, furnace, 
or thing connected with such building or premises is deemed de- 
fective or unsafe as to fire, the said Fire Marshal, or his deputy, 
shall give the owner, or person having control of said property 
five (5) days’ notice of required changes, alterations, or repairs 
necessary to render the same safe to life and property from fire, 
and any person refusing or neglecting to comply with said notice 
shall be subject to the penalties provided for in this Ordinance. 


Section 299: Safeguarding of Unoccupied Buildings. When- 
ever any unoccupied building is not properly secured or enclosed, 
the Fire Marshal, or his deputy, shall immediately visit the prem- 
ises and notify the owner, or person having control of the same, 
to forthwith secure or enclose the same, so as to prevent evilly 
disposed persons from gaining access thereto, and the person so 
notified as aforesaid shall within forty-eight hours comply there- 
- with. 


Section 300: Burning of Brush or Refuse. It shall be unlawful 
for any person to start, or cause to be started, any fire outside of 
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refuse matter, or any brush, logs, or stumps, except by permission 
from and under the direction of the Chief Engineer of the Fire 
Department. 


Section 301: Bonfires. No person in said city shall so kindle 
or light or cause to be kindled or lighted any bonfires, without 
first having obtained a permit from the Fire Marshal. 


Section 302: Burning Rubbish On Public Streets. No person 
shall set fire, or burn or cause to be set fire to or burned, any rags, 
paper, wood, or any rubbish on any publis street or grounds with- 
in the City of Alameda, or upon any street or sidewalk paved with 
or constructed of bituminous rock, or any other combustible ma- 
terial. without first having obtained a written permit from the 
Fire Marshall. — 


Section 303: Rendering Tallow Or Fat—Slaughter House. No 
person shall, within the limits of the City of Alameda, render or 
boil down any tallow or fat, for commercial purposes, unless the 
premises upon which such rendering is done shall be at a distance 
of not less than five hundred (500) feet from any occupied dwell- 
ing, and no person within the City of Alameda shall conduct any 
slaughter house. 


section 304: Carrying Fire Where Combustibles Stored. No 
person, in the City of Alameda, shall use any portable light, or 
smoke in any place where hay, gunpowder, petroleum or any 
other combustible material is stored or kept. 


Section 305: Lighted Cigars Or Fires In Operators Box.. It 
shall be unlawful for any person to place or permit to remain in 
any enclosure or room in which any moving picture machine is 
operated, any open fire, or any lighted cigar or cigarette or pipe. 


Section 306: Chemical Fire Extinguishers—Moving Picture 
Box. In all such places of amusement, two three gallon chemical 
fire extinguishers must be kept immediately outside the operator’s 
booth or moving picture box, and said fire extinguishers shall be 
ready for service at all times. 


Section 307: Match Factory. No person, firm or corporation 
shall maintain or conduct any factory or works within any of the 
Fire Limits of the City of Alameda, for the manufacture of mat- 

ches. 


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Section 308: Storage of Hay or Straw Within Fire Limits. 
Within Fire Limits Numbers One and Three, no hay or straw shall 
be kept or stored within fifteen (15) feet of any building used as 
a dwelling. 


Section 309: Interference With Fire Alarm or Police Tele- 
graph Apparatus. No person shall, in the City of Alameda. 

1. Break, remove, or injure any of the parts or appurtenances 
of the Fire Alarm or Police Telegraph, or Electric ight, or Fire 
Department Apparatus, without authority or permission from the 
City Council. 

2. Make or fit any key to the lock of any signal box of the Fire 
Alarm or Police Telegraph. 

3. Have or retain in his possession, or under his control a key 
belonging to or fitted to open the lock of any such signal box, 
without lawful authority so to do. 

4. Pick or force the lock of any such signal box without the 
authority or consent of the Chief of Police or Chief of the Fire 
Department. 

5. Willfully make or cause to be made any false alarm of fire, 
by means of said telegraph or otherwise. 


Section 310: Injuring Property of Police or Fire Department. 
Any person or persons willfully injuring any engine house, hose, 
hose carriage, or other apparatus or property of the Fire or Police 
Department of the City of Alameda, or any property of any com- 
pany belonging to said Department, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and punished as provided in this ordinance. 


Section 311: Obstructing Fire Hydrants. No person shall, in 
the City of Alameda, obstruct any fire hydrant or cistern in such 
manner as to hide it from view at any point, or hinder free access 
thereto by any engine or hose carriage, or construct any area or 
other wall or thing so as to interfere in any manner with a hyd- 
rant below the line of the curb. 


section 312: Police to Guard Streets In Case of Fire. It shall 
be the duty of the police, at the time of fire, to place ropes or 
guards across all streets, lanes, or alleys on which shall be sit- 
uated any building on fire, and at such other points as they shall 
deem expedient and necessary, and they shall prevent any and all 
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the existing fire, and their employes, and excepting also officers 
of the Fire Department and firemen, officers of the City of Ala- 
meda, and such other persons as may have permission from an 
officer of the Fire Department, or a police officer, from entering 
within the lines so designated by ropes or guards. Any person, 
or persons, other than those hereinbefore excepted, entering with- 
in the lines designated by said ropes or guards, and refusing to 
go outside of said lines when directed so to do by any police of- 
ficer or officer of the Fire Department, shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and liable to punishment as provided in this ord- 
nance. 


Section 313: Breaking Through Guarded Streets. It shall be 
unlawful for any person or persons to break through or attempt 
to break through such rope, or guard, or barrier, or to run over 
with any vehicle any fire hose used by the Fire Department at 
any fire. 


Section 314: Prohibiting Use of Water For Irrigation After 
Fire Alarms. It shall be unlawful for any person to draw, take or 
use or to allow or permit the drawing, taking or using, on any 
premises owned, occupied or controlled by him, of any water for 
the purpose of irrigation, from pipes or mains which are or shall 
be directly or indirectly connected with the supply of water avail- 
able for the use of the Fire Department of the City of Alameda, 
between the time of the sounding of any bell alarm of fire and 
the sounding of the ‘‘recall’’ bell indicating that the fire is ex- 
tinguished. 


Section 315: Misdemeanor. Any person who violates any of 
the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor. 


Article 5—REGULATING THE KEEPING, USE AND STOR. 
AGE OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS OR HYDRO-CARBON 
LIQUIDS. 


Section 316: City Council To Grant Permits When Over 300 
Gallons. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation 
to store or use petroleum, gasoline, benzine, naptha, crude petro- 
leum or any product of petroleum, or hydro-carbon liquids in 
greater quantities than three hundred (300) gallons, within the 


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City of Alameda without first obtaining a permit therefore from 
the City Council of the City of Alameda, specifylug the name 
of the permittee and the location of the premises to be used for 
such storage or use of petroleum, gasoline, benzine, naptha, crude 
petroleum or any product of petroleum, or hydro-carbon liquids, 
and the amount of the above named oil or oils desired; provided, 
however, that the City Council in the granting or refusal of such 
permit shall exercise a reasonable and sound discretion, taking into | 
consideration the character of the applicant for such permit and 
the intended location; and further provided, that all persons, 
firms or corporations now conducting such a place for the above 
named oils, after the passage of this ordinance, comply with all 
the requirements hereinafter specified in this ordinance govern- 
ing the storage or use of an additional supply of the above named 
olls. 

Provided, however, that this article shall not apply to ordinary 
kerosene or coal oil lamps or properly constructed kerosene or 
coal stoves, using oil which will stand a flash test of one hundred 
and ten (110) degrees Fahrenheit, or better, before it will flash 
or emit an inflammable vapor. 


Section 317: Notices of Application to Be Posted on Premises. 
When application is made to the City Council by any person, firm 
or corporation to store or use any petroleum, gasoline. benzine, 
naptha, crude petroleum or any product of petroleum, or hydro- 
earbon liquids, said applicant or applicants shall cause to be 
posted conspicuously on his or their premises a notice to the ef- 
fect that application has been made to the City Council for the 
granting of such permit; said notice to be posted immediately 
after the filing of the application and to be kept posted until said 
application is finally granted or denied. 


Section 318: Fire Marshall to Report on Applications. All 
applications made to the City Council for permits to store or use 
any petroleum, gasoline, benzine, naptha, crude petroleum or any 
product of petroleum, or hydro-carbon liquids, shall before final 
action is taken thereon by the City Council, be referred to the 
Fire Marshal for investigation, and to report the conditions neces- 
sary to be embodied in the resolution granting such privileges to 
the petitions. Furthermore, said Fire Marshal shall furnish each 
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imposed by this ordinance for their information and guidance as 
to the manner in which the above named oils shall be stored or 
used, and shall also furnish the clerk of the City Council with a 
copy of said conditions. 


Section 319: Storage of Petroleum Products Up to Five Gal- 
lons. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, or cor- 
poration to keep or store, or to permit the keeping or storing of, 
within the City of Alameda, in any building or upon any premises, 
street, or place, any gasoline, benzine, naptha, crude petroleum, 
or product of petroleum, or hydro-carbon liquid which shall flash 
or emit an inflammable vapor at a temperature below one hun- 
dred and ten (110) degrees Fahrenheit, in greater quantities than 
Five (5) gallons, without the written permission of the Fire Mar- 
Shal of the City of Alameda. Not more than five (5) gallons of 
any of the articles hereinbefore mentioned shall in any case be 
kept in any one place, except as in this article hereinafter provi- 
ded, and any quantity in excess of Five (5) gallons must be stored 
outside the walls of any building at a spot designated by the Fire 
Marshal. 


Section 320: Storage of Quantities Above 5 Gallons and Not 
Exceeding 300 Gallons. It shall be unlawful for any person, 
firm, company or corporation to keep or store, or permit the keep- 
ing or storing of any of the articles mentioned in section 316 of 
this article within the City of Alameda in quantities in excess of 
five (5) gallons and not exceeding One Hundred and Seventy-five 
(175) gallons unless the same be kept or stored in a No. 12 vauge 

galvanized steel tank, if within the Fire Limits of said city, and 
of a No. 16 gauge galvanized steel tank, if outside of said Fire 
Tumits, said tanks to be riveted, steel to steel joints, soldered and 
coated with tar or other rust resisting material, or an iron tank 
of not less than three sixteenths (3- 16) of an inch in thickness, 
riveted and caulked, coated with tar or other rust resisting ma- 
terials, the said tanks to be placed under the sidewalk or at least 
fifteen feet from any unhabitated building, the top of any such 
tank if within the Fire Limits, to be at least four (4) feet below 
the surface of the earth but if outside of the Fire Limits the top 
thereof to be at least two (2) feet below the surface of the earth. 

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company or corpor- 
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the articles mentioned in section 316 of this article, within the 
City of Alameda, in quantities in excess of one hundred and sev- 
enty-five (175) gallons and not exceeding three hundred (300) 
gallons unless the same be kept or stored in a No. 12 guage gal- 
vanized, steel to steel joints, soldered and coated with tar or other 
rust material, or an iron tank of not less than three sixteenths 
(3-16) of an inch in thickness, riveted and caulked, coated with 
tar or other rust resisting material, the said tanks to be placed un- 
der the sidewalk or at least fifteen feet from any unhabitated 
building, the top of any such tank, if within the Fire Limits, to be 
at least four (4) feet below the surface of the earth but if outside 
of the Fire Limits, the top thereof to be at least two (2) feet be- 
low the surface of the earth. 

No such tank shall be located nearer than twenty (20) feet 
from any furnace, stove or other fire. 

All such tanks shall be supplied with proper feed pipe and 
pump and each pump to be supplied with an automatic cut off or 
self draining check valve. 


Section 321: How Quantities Over 500 Gallons Must Be Stored. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company or corporation 
to keep or store or permit the keeping or storing of, within the 
City of Alameda, in any one building or upon any one premises, 
street, or place, any of the articles mentioned in Section 316 of 
this article which shall flash or emit an inflammable vapor at a 
temperature above one hundred and ten (110) degrees Fahren- 
heit, in quantities greater than five hundred (500) gallons, except 
in tanks arranged as provided for in Sections 316, 318, 322 and 323 
of this article, or in barrels or metallic cans in a one story brick, 
stone or concrete warehouse detached fifty (50) feet from any 
other building and used only for such storage, which building 
shall be only used as said storage, upon written or printed. permit 
of the City Council of the City of Alameda. 


Section 322: Necessity to Present Plans of Tanks to City 
Council. Before any storage tank or tanks for the storage of 
quantities greater than three hundred (300) gallons shall be built 
or erected the person, firm, company or corporation intending to 
build or erect them shall make application to the City Council 
of the City of Alameda, submitting plans of the proposed tank or 
tanks, showing their size and capacity, construction, proposed 


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contents, location, distance from water and streams, and showing 
the location of all adjacent buildings. They shall also submit 
plans and specifications for a brick or concrete wall to surround 
said tank or tanks. 


Section 323: Plans and Specifications For Such Tanks to Be 
Approved. All such storage tanks shall be located a sufficient 
distance away from bulkheads or water front (high tide) to allow 
the construction of a brick or concrete wall having a height of 
not less than four (4) feet, said walls to be not less than thirteen 
(13) inches thick at top; to be reinforced with buttresses at least 
every ten (10) feet. The plans and specifications for such wall or 
walls to be approved by the City Council and the Fire 
Marshal of the City of Alameda. The walls may be constructed 
of reinforced concrete of such thickness and with such reinforce- 
ment as may be approved by the City Council and_ the 
Fire Marshal. 

The reservoir formed by such walls must have a capacity at 
least ten (10%) per cent in excess of that of the tank, tanks or 
plant surrounded and there shall be no openings of any kind in 
said walls. 


Section 324: Care of Inflammable Petroleum Products During 
Night Time While In Transit. None of the aforesaid gasoline, 
benzine, naptha, crude, petroleum or product of petroleum, or 
hydro-carbon liquids which shall flash or emit an inflammable 
vapor at a temperature below one hundred and ten (110) degrees 
Fahrenheit, shall be allowed while in transit to remain in any 
warehouse or ware room, in greater quantities than five (5) gal- 
lons, at night between the hours of sunset and sunrise, but shall 
be so placed outside such buildings as to be readily accessible to 
the fire department in case of fire, at a spot determined upon by 
the Fire Marshal of the City of Alameda; and every ship or vessel 
having as part of its cargo any of the above named products of 
petroleum or hydro-carbon liquids in greater quantities than five 
hundred (500) gallons, shall at night, between the hours of sun- 
set and sunrise, be more than two hundred (200) feet removed 
from any dock, warehouse, or other burnable property. 


Section 325: How Storage Tanks Are to Be Filled, or Emptied. 
When storage tanks are to be filled with crude petroleum, they 
shall be filled through a section of hose or pipe suitable for the 


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purpose directly connected to the tank or delivery wagon which 
hose or pipe shall be detached from the feed pipe when not in ser- 
vice. 

' When storage tanks are to be filled with refined petroleum pro- 
ducts or lhquids they shall be filled by means of receptacles or 
metallic cans of not more than five (5) gallons capacity in which 
said products or liquid shall be carried from the tank wagon to 
the receiving pipe or opening of the receiving tank. 

The contents of storage tanks shall not be emptied or with- 
drawn by any gravity, pressure or syphon methods. 


Section 326: Installation of Plants Burning Fuel Petroleum 
or Distillate—Specifications For The Same. No person, firm or 
corporation shall, within the City of Alameda, construct, erect or 
maintain any plant or use any device or apparatus for burning 
crude or fuel petroleum or fuel distillate, or for generating a gas 
therefrom, for fuel purposes, without the approval of the Fire 
Marshal of the City of Alameda, and in such manner and location 
as said Fire Marshal shall deem safe to life and property, and then 
only when installed in accordance with the following specific- 
ations: } 

(a) The storage tank to be constructed of boiler iron or steel 
not less than three sixteenths (3-16) of an inch in thickness, the 
top of same to be buried not less than four (4) feet underground, 
and located outside the foundation of any building, under the 
sidewalk close to curb line. Top of tank to be below the level of 
the lowest pipe at which oil is burned. Filling pipe of not ex- 
ceeding twelve (12) inches in diameter to be closed by screw cap. 
The tank must be ventilated by Pipe of not less than two (2) in- 
ches in diameter, extending at least ten (10) feet above the 
ground, and provided with a return bend. The oil to be pumped 
from storage tanks to burners, the suction pipe to lead through 
the top of the tank and to be provided with a shut-off valve near 
burning point, independent of any valve that is part of the 
burner. The storage tank must be connected with boiler by steam 
pipe, which can, if desired, be connected with the over flow pipe, — 
and should be blown out before being entered for cleaning or 
other purposes, but this pipe must not be used for heating the oil 
in the tank. If the oil is heated it must be by a device outside of 
the storage tank. 


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(b) To properly clean the tank a man-hole may be provided, 
which if provided, must be closed above by a hinged and locked 
cover, and below (at the top of the tank) by a boiler plate cover, 
flanged and screwed. The space thus formed must be filled, while 
not used, with sacks of sand to prevent the accumulation of gas. 
The space between the retaining walls and tank must be filled 
solidly with earth or sand, so that no vapor can accumulate. 

(ce) All storage tanks shall be placed in the spot agreed upon 
with the applicant and the Fire Marshal. 

(d) Where the sidewalk is not excavated for basement use; 
the top of all storage tanks must be at least four (4) feet below 
the sidewalk; the space between the top of the tank and the side- 
walk shall be filled with earth. 

(e) Where the sidewalk is excavated and used as part of base- 
ment, the top of the tank must be level with the boiler room floor; 
a brick or concrete wall not less than twelve (12) inches in thick- 
ness shall be constructed around said storage tank, extending 
from bottom of tank up to four (4) feet above the top of said 
storage tank; the space between the top of the tank and the top 
of the wall shall be filled with earth, the earth covered with at 
least three (3) inches of concrete. 

(f) Where it is desired to utilize all Space under the sidewalk 
for basement purposes, the top of the storage tank ghall be at 
least four (4) feet below the basement floor; a brick or concrete 
wall not less than twelve (12) inches in thickness shall be con- 
structed around said storage tank, extending from bottom of tank 
up to basement floor; the space between the top of the tank and 
the basement floor shall be filled with earth, the earth covered 
with a concrete flooring. 

(g) All storage tanks shall be surrounded with a brick or con- 
crete wall not less than twelve (12) inches in thickness. The top 
of all storage tanks must be below the erate bars of the fire and 
must also be covered with four (4) feet of earth. 

(h) No storage tank shall be covered with earth until an in- 
spection has been made by the Fire Marshal. 

(i) All tanks stored in basements under the sidewalk must go 
close to the retaining wall of the street. 

(j) All tanks must be carefully caulked and riveted, and all 
piping must be done in the best possible manner, and first class 
material only must be used. 


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When located outside of the Fire Limits and in a district purely 
residential, gravity distillate burning systems may be installed 
in either of the following manners according to the capacity of 
the tanks used: 

1. A steel or iron tank of not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
(250) gallons capacity may be placed not nearer than five (5) feet 
to any building or structure or part thereof. The pipe through 
said tank to the said burner shall not exceed one fourth (14) of 
an inch in diameter and must be fitted with shut-out valves inde- 
pendent of the burner at the tank and on both sides of the build- 
ing wall through which it penetrates. , Such tank may be installed 
either above or below ground with or without a conerete casing 
provided, however, that when possible to obtain a gravity flow the 
tank shall be buried at least two (2) feet underground. The bot- 
tom of any such tank shall in no ease be at a height to exceed five 
(5) feet above the plane of the burning points: or 

2. The burner may be supplied from a vented metal tank of not 
exceeding ten (10) gallons capacity, placed not nearer than ten 
(10) feet to any building or structure or part thereof, which tank 
may be filled, by gravity or pump, from a vented metal tank of 
not exceeding six hundred (600) gallons capacity, buried two (2) 
feet underground and not within five (5) feet of any building or 
structure or part thereof, if underground, and if above ground 
not nearer than twenty (20) feet to any building or structure or 
part thereof, to be surrounded by a brick or concrete wall of not 
less than thirteen (13) inches thick, and covered with a roof of 
incombustible material. The supply pipe from this tank to the 
smaller tank shall not exceed three-fourths (%) of an inch in dia- 
meter, shall be provided with a shut-off valve at a point just out- 
side the smaller tank, and also when practicable with a similar 
valve just outside the larger tank. The system to be installed so 
oil will not gravitate from the large tank to burners. 

When located outside of the Fire Limits, and in a district not 
purely residential, gravity distillate systems may be used if in- 
stalled as follows: 

A vented metal tank of not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
(250) gallons capacity shall be placed not nearer than ten (10) 
feet to any building or structure or part thereof. The supply pipe 
from said tank to the burner shall not exceed one fourth (14) of 
an inch in diameter, and shall be fitted with three shut-off valves 


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independent of the one governing the burner, one to be imme- 
diately at the tank, and one at a point immediately on each side 
of the building wall penetrated by said pipe. 

(c) All storage tanks shall be placed in the spot agreed upon 
with the applicant and the Fire Marshal. 

(d) Where the sidewalk is not excavated for basement use, 
the top of all storage tanks must be at least four (4) feet below 
the sidewalk; the space between the top of the tank and the side- 
walk shall be filled with earth. 

(e) Where the sidewalk is excavated and used as part of base- 
ment, the top of the tank must be level with the boiler room floor; 
a brick or concrete wall not less than twelve (12) inches in thick- 
ness shall be constructed around said siorage tank, extending 
from bottom of tank up to four (4) feet above the top of said stor- 
age tank; the space between the top of the iank and the top of the 
wall shall be filled with earth, the earth covered with at least three 
(3) inches of concrete. 

(f) Where it is desired to utilize all space under the sidewalk 
for basement purposes, the top of the storage tank shall be at least 
four (4) feet below the basement floor; a brick or conerete wall 
not less than twelve (12) inches in thickness shall be constructed 
around said storage tank, extending from bottom of tank up to 
basement floor ; the space between the top of the tank and the base- 
ment floor shall be filled with earth, the earth covered with a con- 
crete flooring. 

(¢) All storage tanks shall be surrounded with a brick or con- 
crete wall not less than twelve (12) inches in thickness. The top 
of all storage tanks must be below the grate bars of the fire and 
must also be covered with four (4) feet of earth. 

(h) No storage tank shall be covered with earth until an in- 
spection has been made by the Fire Marshal. 

(1) All tanks stored in basements under the sidewalk must 20 
close to the retaining wall of the street. 

(j) All tanks must be carefully caulked and riveted. and all 
piping must be done in the best possible manner, and first class 
material only must be used. 


Section 327: Small Quantities of Petroleum Products to Be 
Kept in Metallic Cans. All gasoline, benzine, naptha, kerosene, 
coal oil or any product of petroleum or hydro-carbon liquids in any 


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quantity permitted in this ordinance shall always be kept in met- 
allic cans or tanks. 


Section 328: Exemption of Automobiles From Provisions of 
This Article. None of the provisions of this article shall apply to 
the storage or use of gasoline or any refined petroleum products in 
the tanks attached to automobiles or other motor vehicles. 


Section 329: Each Day’s Violation a Separate Offense. Every 
day’s continuance of a violation of any of the provisions of this ar- 
ticle shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense. 


Section 330: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor. 


CHAPTER VI 


PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND SANITATION. 
Article 1—BOARD OF HEALTH. 


Section 331: Requiring, Registration By Physicians And Mid- 
Wives. Every physician practicing medicine or midwifery in the 
City of Alameda shall register his or her name in the Register kept 
for that purpose in the office of the Board of Health of said city, 
and shall also state in said register the name of the medical col- 
lege from which he or she graduated, and the date of his or her 
graduation; or, if not a graduate from any medical college, such 
person shall state the legal authority by which he or she is entitled 
to practice medicine or midwifery and the place where, and the 
date when, such legal authority was conferred. 


Section 332: Requiring Reports of Various Diseases And of 
Births And Deaths. Every physician practicing medicine in said 
city immediately upon ascertaining that he or she has a patient 
within the city’s limits afflicted with either of the following 
named contagious or infectious diseases, viz.: Asiatic cholera, var- 
lola, varioloid, diphtheria, scarlet fever, or measles, typhus or ty- 
phoid fever, whooping cough, or other diseases specified by the 
State Board of Health or its Secretary, shall ,without delay, re- 


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port such patient, in writing to the Board of Health, or to the 
Health Officer, and shall also report to said Board or to the Health 
Officer every case of death occurring, under his or her observation, 
from any contagious or infectious disease, or from any other cause, 
immediately after it shall have occurred; and said physicians and 
all persons who may be practicing midwifery in said city, shall re- 
port to said Board, or to the Health Officer, the name, sex, and 
color of every child born under his or her care in said eity, to- 
gether with the date of its birth, the names of its father and 
mother, and their birthplaces, occupation, and residence; and it 
shall be the duty of every householder in said city to report in 
writing to the Board of Health, or some officer thereof, in like 
manner as is required of physicians, the name of every person 
stopping at his or her house whom they shall have reason to be- 
heve is sick with any of the above-named contagious or infectious 
diseases, when no physician is employed to care for such sick per- 
son; and in ease the birth of a child has occurred without the at- 
tendance of a physician or midwife, then it shall be the duty of 
the parents of such child to make the above required report of 
said birth; these reports of birth to be made by physicians. mid- 
Wives, nurses and parents, as herein provided, not later than the 
fifth day of the month subsequent to the month in which said child 
shall be born. 


Section 333: Burial of Persons Dying From Dangerous Dis- 
eases. The bodies of persons dying in said city from Asiastie chol- 
era, variola, varioloid, diphtheria, scarlet fever and typhus fever 
shall not be removed from the premises where death occurred (un- 
less such removal be to undertaker’s rooms) until taken from them 
for burial; and such burial shall be within twenty-four hours after 
death, and private, without gathering of friends or public cere- 
monies. . 

Section 334: Keeping Dead Human Bodies Without Permit.No 
person shall keep or allow to be kept on any premises owned, oc- 
eupied or controlled by him in the City of Alameda any dead hu- 
man body for more than one week without special permission from 
the Board of Health of said city. which permission shall be 
granted only upon good cause being shown therefor. 


Section 335: Removal of Dead Human Bodies. No person shall 
convey any dead human body into or from within the corporate 


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limits of the City of Alameda without first obtaining a permit 
therefor from the Board of Health or Health Officer of said city, 
and filing with said Board of Health a certificate showing the date, 
locality, and cause of death, and when the same can be ascertained, 
the full name, age, sex, color, nationality, and the occupation of 
the deceased person, and whether the same was single, married, 
widow, or widower. No charge shall be made for said permit. 
Said Board of Health or Health Officer shall issue said permit upon 
the presentation and filing of said certificate. 


Section 336: Authorizing Board of Health to Post Certain 
Notices. The Board of Health is hereby empowered to post notices 
not exceeding eight inches by four inches in size upon any build- 
ing or premises, or upon any portion of the same, in which there 
exists any case of smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria or other dis- 
eases specified by the State Board of Health or its Secretary. 


Section 337: Defacing or Tearing Down Notices of Board of 
Health. No person shall deface, tear down or destroy any notice 
or proclamation set up by authority of the Board of Health of the 
City of Alameda in said city before the time for which the same 
was to remain set up has expired. 


Section 338: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 2—IMPURE OR UNWHOLESOME FOODS IN GEN- 
EBRAL. 


Section 339: Unwholesome Meat. It shall be unlawful for any 
person to sell or offer for sale in said city any blown, diseased, 
tainted, or bad meat or fish, or the flesh of any animal which was, 
when killed, sick or diseased, or the flesh of any animal which died 
a natural or accidental death, or the flesh of any calf which was 
killed prior to its attaining the age of four (4) weeks. 


Section 340: Unwholesome or Adulterated Vegetables or 
Foods. It shall be unlawful for any person to offer, sell, or keep 
for sale in said city any unsound, diseased, or unwholesome fruit, 
vegetables or other market produce, or any adulterated article of 
food. 


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Section 341: Keeping Unwholesome Food In Same Room With 
Good. It shall be unlawful for any person in said city to keep any 
of the articles of food herein mentioned which are in an unwhole- 
some condition, in the same room with any other food. 


Section 342: Protection of Food Products Offered For Sale. 
No person shall keep or expose for sale in the City of Alameda any 
fruits, meats, vegetables, or other produce unless the same are 
kept in boxes or cases covered with fly proof covers, or kept on 
racks, counters, shelves, hooks, or stands so as to be placed at least 
two feet above the floor of the store or place where said articles 
are exposed for sale. 


Section 343: Necessity to Use New Receptacles In Offering 
Fruit For Sale. No person shall bring into the City of Alameda 
for sale, or in said city sell or offer for sale, any berries, peaches, 
plums, cherries, or nectarines contained in any box, basket, bag, 
or other receptacle which is not entirely new and previously un- 
used, except that this article shall not apply to chests, crates, or 
baskets which are used in the transportation of smaller boxes or 
packages containing fruits. 


section 344: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 3—MILK REGULATIONS. 


section 345: Board of Health Intrusted With Regulation Aad 
Control. The Board of Health of the City of Alameda is hereby 
authorized, empowered and directed to regulate and control the 
traffic in milk in said city, to provide for the inspection of milk in 
said City of Alameda, and for the inspection of dairies and dairy 
cows producing milk for sale or consumption within said city. 


Section 346: Necessity For Permit to Vend Milk. No milk pro- 
ducer or milk vendor shall, after this ordinance becomes operative, 
either himself or through his agents, servants or employees offer 
or expose for sale, or sell or deliver for sale, use or consumption 
within the City of Alameda any milk without first having obtained 
from the Board of Health of the City of Alameda a permit so to do, 
as hereinafter provided. 


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Section 347: What Application For Permit Should Contain. To 
procure such a permit, the applicant shall present to said Board of 
Health a written application, and shall state therein the name, and 
business and residence address of the applicant or applicants, the 
source or sources from when said applicant or applicants obtain 
or will obtain supplies of milk, the number of cows in the posses- 
sion of such applicant, and the manner and character of such dis- 
position, such application to be made to the said Board of Health 
upon printed blanks to be provided by the Board of Health upon 
printed blanks to be provided by the oBard of Health for 
such purpose. Such application shall further state the specific 
brand or business name, if any, under which said milk is to be sold, 
exchanged or distributed. 


Section 348 Issuance of Permit—No Cost. If the Board of 
Health, upon such application, shall determine that the statements 
therein made are true, it shall be the duty of the Board of Health 
to issue without cost to said applicant, a permit to bring into, sell, 
expose or offer for sale, exchange, deliver or distribute milk with- 
in the City of Alameda, and all such written statements required 
as aforesaid shall be registered in a register to be provided by the 
said Board of Health, and kept for that purpose. 


Section 349: What Allowable Under Permit—Revocability. 
One such permit shall be required for each place of general sale or 
storage of milk. Such permits shall be issued only in the name of 
the owners of the supply of milk thus on storage or for sale, and 
shall for the purpose of this article be conclusive evidence of such 
ownership. No such permit shall be sold or assigned or transfer- 
red. Such permits shall be subject at all times to revocation by 
said Board of Health in its discretion upon sufficient cause there- 
fore shown; provided, however, that no such permit shall be re- 
voked until after a hearing given by said Board of Health in the 
matter of the revocation of such permit after five (5) days’ notice 
in writing has been served on the owner of such permit in the man- 
ner prescribed for the service of notice by Section 1011 of the Code 
of Civil Procedure of the State of California, which notice shall 
state the ground of complaint against such owner, and the time 
and place where such hearing shall take place; and provided, fur- 
ther that no permit shall be revoked by said Board of Health for 


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the first offense, without the unanimous consent of all the members 
of said Board. 


At least once in each year every person or persons, firm or cor- 
poration holding such permit shall register with the said Board of 
Health his or their name and permit number, and shall make a 
written statement to said Board of Health, containing all the in- 
formation required to be given by applicants for permits in their 
written application for permits as hereinbefore provided, and all 
applications for permits, and all such written statements required 
as aforesaid, shall be registered in a register to be provided by the 
said Board of Health and kept for that purpose. 


section 350: Necessity For Display of License Number. No 
person, or persons, firm or corporation shall sell or expose for sale 
or exchange or deliver or distribute within the limils of the City 
of Alameda milk from any wagon or vehicle unless such wagon or 
vehicle shall have exposed on both sides thereof the permit num- 
ber of the person or persons, firm or corporation selling or offering 
or exposing for sale or distributing, or delivering or exchanging 
such milk. Such permit number shall be painted on said wagon 
or vehicle in numbers not less than three inches in height, in what 
is known as Arabic numerals, and shall be placed on said wagon 
or vehicle under the direction and according to the requirements 
of the said Board of Health. 


Section 351: Impure, Adulterated, Unhealthy or Unwholesome 
Milk. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or cor- 
poration, by themselves or by their agents, servants or employes in 
the City of Alameda, State of California, to render or manufacture, 
sell, offer for sale, exchange, deliver, distribute or have in his or 
its possession, with intent to sell, expose, or offer for sale or ex- 
change, or distribute for human consumption, any impure, adulter- 
ated, unhealthy or unwholesome milk. 


Section 352: Adulterated And Unwholesome Milk Defined. 
The terms adulterated, impure, unhealthy or unwholesome milk 
as used in this ordinance mean. 

Ist. Milk containing less than twelve (12) per centum of milk 
solids. 

2nd. Milk containing more than eighty-eight (88) per centum 
of water or fluids. 


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3rd. Milk produced during the months of May, June or July 
which contains less than three and two-tenths (3.2) per centum of 
butter fats and milk produced at other times which contains less 
than three and four tenths (3.4) per centum of butter fats. 

4th. Milk drawn from cows within fifteen days before or within 
ten days after parturition. 

5th. Milk drawn from cows fed on any unhealthy or unwhole- 
some food. 

6th. Milk drawn from cows kept in an unhealthy or unsanitary 
condition, or from cows affected with any form of disease, or from 
cows which are supplied with water which is impure or unwhole- 
some. 

7th. Milk from which any part of the cream has been removed. 

8th. Milk which has been diluted with water or skim milk or 
with any other fluid or to which has been added or into which has 
been introduced any foreign substances whatever. 

9th. Milk drawn from cows or by milkers that are themselves 
in a condition of filth or uncleanliness. 

10th. Any milk which is shown by analysis to contain any sub- 
stance or substances of any character whatsoever not natural nor 
normal constituents of milk, or to have been deprived either 
wholly or in part of any constituent naturally or nomally con- 
tained in milk. 


Section 353: Carrying Contaminating Materials or Articles on 
Milk Wagon. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm 
or corporation to have or carry on any wagon or vehicle upon or 
from which milk or cream is being or is bought, carried, stored, 
deposited, sold, exchanged, delivered or distributed or offered or 
exposed for sale or distribution as food for any human being, any 
swill, garbage, refuse or any decaying or fermenting, putrifying, 
foul, unwholesome, noxious or filthy matter, or any cans or recep- 
acles containing any material or substance with which cream or 
milk might be diluted, adulterated or rendered impure, unwhole- 
~ some or unhealthy. 


Section 354: Right of Board of Health to Inspect Premises. 
In order to earry out the purpose and provisions of this order, the 
said Board of Health and all its officers, agents and employes shall 
have the right at any and all times to enter upon or into the prem- 
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under the provisions of this ordinance, and any refusal upon the 
part of such producer, vendor or distributor to allow such entry 
and such inspection as may be required and directed by the said 
Board of Health, may be punished by the revocation of the per- 
mit of such producer, distributor or vendor by the said Board of 
Health. 


Section 355: Care to Be Taken of Milk Cans or Receptacles. 
No person or his employees or agents, or as the employee or agent 
of any other person, firm or corporation having custody of a can, 
jar, bottle, measure or other vessel used as a container for milk, 
skimmed milk, butter milk, sour milk, whey, cream or other milk 
product destined for sale, shall cause or permit the same to be used 
for cooking purposes, or shall place or cause to be placed therein 
any offal, swill, animal or vegetable matter, or any article or sub- 
stance other than milk, skimmed milk, butter milk, sour milk, 
whey, cream or other milk produce, or water or other agent used 
for cleansing said can, jar, bottle, measure or other vessel, and no 
milk cans or milk vessels that are rusty or rust eaten or otherwise 
unfit, shall be used. 


Section 356: Duty to Cleanse Milk Cans And How to Be Done. 
No person or dealer in milk or milk products and no employee or 
agent of such a dealer shall send, ship, return, or deliver or cause, 
or permit to be sent, shipped, returned; or delivered to any pro- 
ducer, dealer in, or consumer of milk, any can, jar, bottle, measure 
or other vessel used as a container of milk, skimmed milk, butter 
milk, sour milk, whey, cream or other milk produce without thor- 
oughly cleaning and cleansing by the use of boiling water, steam 
or other proper agent such can, jar, bottle, measure or other ves- 
sel, used as a container for milk, skimmed milk, butter milk, sour 
milk, whey, cream or other milk produce. 


Section 357: Removal of Milk Cans or Receptacles From Places 
Where Diseases Exist. No person shall remove from any dwelling 
in which exists any case of communicable disease, any bottles or 
other receptacles which have been or which are to be used for con- 
taining, or storing milk, skimmed milk, butter milk, sour milk, 


whey, cream or other milk product, except with the permission of 
the Board of Health. 


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Section 358: Duty of Board of Health to Inspect. It shall be 
the duty of the said Board of Health to cause the dairies and other 
establishments from which milk brought into the City of Alameda 
is obtained, to be inspected from time to time to satisfy such 
Board that the provisions and requirements of this ordinance are 
constantly complied with. 


Section 359: Right of Board of Health to Inspect Places Where ~ 
Milk Kept. The said Board and all its officers, agents and em- 
ployes shall have the right and it shall be their duty to enter and 
have full access, egress and ingress to all places where milk is 
stored or kept for sale, and to all wagons, carriages or other vehi- 
cles, railroad cars, steamboats or conveyances of every kind used 
for the conveyance or transportation or delivery of milk, for the 
purpose of consumption in the City of Alameda. 


Section 360: Right of Board of Health to Take Samples—How 
to Be Taken. The Board of Health and all its officers, agents and 
employees shall have the right at any time to take sample of milk 
from any person, persons or concern selling or delivering or distri- 
buting milk in the City of Alameda, not exceeding, however, one 
quart thereof, such sample to be taken and sealed in full view and 
in the presence of the persons from whom said sample is taken, 
-and shall then and there furnish to the person from whom such 
milk is taken, one-half of such sample hermetically sealed and shali 
deliver to said Board of Health immediately the sample so taken 
hermetically sealed. Such samples shall have written thereon, at 
the time of the delivery thereof to said Board of Healthfi the num- 
ber of the dealer’s permit, and the date of the obtainment of the 
sample and th nam of th prson by whom it was takn, and a 
memorandum thereof shall be made by the person obtaining such 
sample in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the Board of 
Health, showing the name of the owner or driver from whom, and 
the date when the same was taken, and the number of the dealer’s 
permit. 3 


Section 361: Duty of Dairy Owner to Report Probability of 
Impure Milk. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or man- 
ager of any dairy in the City of Alameda or of any dairy from 
which milk is brought into said city, to forthwith report to the 
Board of Health of said city in writing, anything of which he has 


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knowledge or notice tending to render milk obtained from such 
dairy unwholesome, impure or unhealthy. 


Section 362: Interference With Inspection. It shall be unlaw- 
ful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, to obstruct or 
interfere with the said Board of Health, or any officer, agent or 
employe of said Board, in the performance of any of the duties re- 
quired by this ordinance. 


section 363: Sale of Condensed Milk—Butter Milk—Sour 
Milk. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent 
or prohibit the use, sale or manufacture of what is known as con- 
densed milk, or what is known as butter milk, or what 
is known as sour milk, provided the same are made, 
compounded or prepared from pure, clean, fresh, wholesome 
and unadulterated milk within the meaning of this ordinance 
and are in sound wholesome condition; and provided also, that in 
the case of condensed milk, the proportion of milk solids shall be 
equivalent to twelve (12) per centum of milk solids in crude milk. 
and that of such solids twenty-six and one-half (2614) per centum 
shall be fat. - 


Section 364: Inspection of Transported Milk. It shall be the 
duty of all owners and consignees of milk brought into the City of 
Alameda by any water craft, to have the same tendered and ex- 
posed for inspection by the said Board of Health, its officers, 
agents or employees according to the requirements of said Board 
of Health; provided, that said milk shall not be detained for in- 
spection for a longer period than one hour. It shall be the duty 
of the owner or consignee of milk brought into the City of Ala- 
meda by land over any road or railroad leading into the City of 
Alameda to cause the same to be tendered and exposed for inspee- 
tion according to the requirements of said Board of Health pro 
vided that said milk shall not be detained for inspection a longer 
period than one hour. 


Section 365: Dairies to Be Kept In Clean Condition. Every 
owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any 
dairy in said city shall cause every part thereof and its appurten- 
ance to be put and shall thereafter cause the same to be kept in a 
cleanly and wholesome condition, and shall cause every part there- 
of in which any person may sleep, dwell or work to be adequately 


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lighted and ventilated according to the direction and to the satis- 
faction of the Board of Health; and proper accomodations for ur- 
inals, water closets, bath tubs and washing utensils shall be pro- 
vided, according to the directions and to the satisfaction of the 
Board of Health, but in no case shall any open urinal or water 
closet, or manure pit, or dung pit, or privy well be allowed or per- 
mitted within any building or structure or any art thereof, in 
which cattle are milked. 


Section 366: What Cleaning Work to Be Done Daily. It is 
hereby made the duty of every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, 
proprietor or manager of any dairy within said City to thoroughly 
and effectually cleanse at least once in every twenty-four hours 
the walls, floors and yards of every building and structure; or 
part thereof, which may be in use for the accomodation or shelter 
of cattle, and also to remove the contents of any manure pit on the 
premises once in each week. 


Section 367: Animals to Be In Healthy Condition—Also Milk- 
er.. No milk shall be taken from any cow, goat or other milk-pro- 
ducing animal unless such animal shall be in a clean condition: 
nor shall any such milk be taken from any such animal except 
by employe or other person who is himself in a cleanly, whole- 
some and healthy condition. 


Section 368: To Feed Cattle Only Wholesome Food. No own- 
er, lessee, tenant, occupant, proprietor or manager of any such 
dairy shall feed to his cows or other cattle or have in his posses- 
sion with intent to feed to such cattle, any garbage, refuse, swill 
or other improper food, or shall sell or offer for sale within said 
City the milk from such cattle, nor shall any person within said 
City receive or sell, or offer for sale, or keep for sale, or have in 
possession, any such milk; nor shall the milk of any cattle which 
may be kept in any place where the water, ventilation, food or sur-. 
roundings are not wholesome. or are not conducive to the health, 
safe condition and wholesomeness of such cattle, or of their milk 
be sold, offered for sale, kept for sale, had in possession or 
brought within said City. 


Section 369: Milk From Animals Fed On Certain Foods. No 
person shall bring within said City, or at any place therein sell, 
or deliver, or offer, or have for sale, or retain it in possession, any 


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unwholesome, watered or otherwise adulterated milk, cream, but- 
ter or cheese, or milk known as ‘‘swill milk,’’ or milk from cows 
or other animals that for the most part have been kept in stables, 
or that have been fed in whole or in part on swill or milk from 
sick or diseased cows or other cattle, or any cream, butter or 
cheese made from such milk, or any milk, cream, butter or cheese 
produced by or from any such cattle which may have been exposed 
to emanation from or infections by any communicable disease. 


Section 370: Sale of Skimmed Milk. Pure skimmed milk shall 
be permitted for sale or delivery provided that the cans or vessels 
containing such skimmed milk shall be distinctly labeled ‘‘skim- 
med milk’’; and further provided, that such ‘‘skimmed milk”’ 
shall not be carried in wagons or vehicles in which ‘‘whole milk’’ 
is carried, sold or delivered, or pretended to be earried or sold. 


Section 371: Misdemeanor. Every person who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 


Article 4—THE CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF RABIES. 


Section 372: Duty of Custodian of Dog Suspected of Rabies— 
Duty of Health Officer. Any person having in confinement dogs 
suspected of rabies shall report the suspicion to the Health Officer 
of their City of Alameda and shall submit such dog to the examin- 
ation of the Health Officer or his representative, and it shall be the 
duty of the Health Officer, when called upon, to examine, or have 
examined, such dog if it is suspected of having rabies, and to as- 
certain whether or not such dog is afflicted with rabies. 


Section 373: Disposition of Dogs Suspected of Rabies. Dogs 
suspected of having rabies shall not be killed, but shall be kept 
in confinement until the Health Officer or his representative shall 
find that further observation of the live animal is not necessary 
for the determination of the presence or absence of rabies. After 
the permission of the Health Officer has been secured, dogs afflicted 
with rabies may be killed. The person or officer capturing any 
dog shall, if the owner thereof is known to him, notify such owner 
that such dog has been captured. If any dog is found not to be 
afflicted with rabies and is not reclaimed by the owner thereof or 
other person claiming the same within five days after capture, 


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such dog shall be killed in some humane manner by the person ecap- 
turing the same, or the officer to whom the dog was delivered. 


section 374: Duty of Custodian of Dog Showing Symptoms of 
Rabies. Whenever the owner or person having the custody or 
possession of any animal shall observe or learn of rabies, or has 
acted in a manner which would lead a reasonable man to a sus- 
picion that it might have rabies, such owner or person having the 
custody or possession of such animal shall immediately notify the 
Health Officer or his representative, and shall allow the Health 
Officer or his representative to make an inspection or examination 
of such animal, and to quarantine such animal until it shall be es- 
tablished to the satisfaction of said official that such animal has or 
has not: rabies. 


Section 375: Duty of Custodian of Dog Which Has Bitten Any 
Person. Whenever it is shown that any dog has bitten any per- 
son, the owner or person having the custody or possession thereof 
shall, upon order of the Health officer, deliver said dog to the 
Poundmaster who shall quarantine it and keep it tied up or con- 
fined for a period of two weeks, and the Health Officer may make 
an inspection or examination thereof at any time during said per- 
iod. If it shall appear to the Health Officer, upon examination as 
aforesaid, or otherwise, that a dog:has rabies, he may kill it forth- 
with. 


Section 376: Duty of Custodian of Animal Bitten By Another 
Affected With Rabies. Whenever any animal shall be bitten by 
another animal having rabies, the owner or person having the cus- 
tody or possession of the animal os bitten shall, upon being in- 
formed thereof, either kill such animal or quarantine it and keep 
it tied up or confined for a period of six months, and the Health 
officer shall have power, in his discretion, to kill or quarantine the 
animal so bitten, in case the owner or person having custody or 
possession thereof shall fail to do so immediately, or in case the 
- owner or person having custody thereof is not readily accessible. 


Section 377: Transportation of Dogs From District In Which 
Rabies Exists. No person shall bring a dog into the City of Ala- 
meda from any part of any country in which rabies has been 
known to exist within six months previously, except upon the 
written permission of the Health officer of the City of Alameda; 


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and such permission is to be granted only if the Health Officer is 
convinced that said dog, whenever in this City during a subse- 
quent period of six months, will be confined or muzzled. 


Section 378: Poundmaster’s Fee Where Dogs Reclaimed. Any 
person reclaiming any dog confined with the Poundmaster under 
the provisions of this article shall pay to the Poundmaster suck 
fee or fees as he is allowed by ordinance for the reclaiming of 
stray and unlicensed dogs and such fees when so collected by said 
Poundmaster shall be by him immediately paid into the Treasury 
of the City of Alameda and shall be thereafter by the City Trea- 
surer placed in the General Fund. 


Section 379: Misdemeanor. Any person violating any of the 
provisions of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor. 


Article 5—VETERINARY SURGEONS AND DISEASED ANI- 
MALS. 


Section 380: Veterinary Surgeons to Report Contagious Dis- 
eases. LEvery veterinary surgeon practicing in the City of Ala- 
meda shall immediately report, in writing, to the Health Officer of 
caid City every case of contagious pleuro-pneumonia, tuberculosis, 
foot and mouth disease, anthrax, Texas fever, actinomycosis, | 
glanders, farcy, or hydrophobia with which any animal he shall 
treat or examine shall be effected. 


Section 381: Animals Afflicted With Tuberculosis. No person 
shall bring into the City of Alameda or keep within said city, or 
permit to be kept on any premises owned or controlled by him 
within said City, any cow, or calf, or other animal of the bovine 
species afflicted with tuberculosis. 


Section 382: Horses Afflicted With Glanders. No person shall 
bring into the City of Alameda, or keep within said City, or permit 
to be kept on any premises owned or controlled by him within said 
City, any horse afflicted with glanders. 


Section 383: Authorizing Destruction of Animals So Afflicted. 
The Board of Health and its authorized agents is hereby empow- 
ered under such regulations as it may determine to cause the des- 


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truction of any cow or calf found in this city afflicted with tuber- 
culosis or horse affected with glanders. 


Section 384: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor. 


Article 6—SANITARY REGULATIONS. 


section 385: Regulating The Accumulation And Disposal of 
Garbage. It shall be the duty of the tenant, lessee or occupant of 
any private or other dwelling house or building in said. city to pro- 
vide and maintain for each such dwelling house or building so oe- 
cupied by him and within the same or upon the lot or premises 
upon which the same is located, at least one tight, galvanized iron 
or metal tank or receptacle suitable ‘and adequate for receiving 
and holding and in which shall be deposited all the solid kitchen 
and table refuse and offal, swill and every accumulation thereof 
created upon such premises; and it shall be the duty of such per- 
son at least once in every seven days or as often as such can or re- 
ceptacle shall become filled to cause the contents of the same to be 
removed from said premises and disposed of in accordance with 
law. All such receptacles shall be provided with a cover having 
‘holes not less than one sixteenth of an inch each and sufficient in 
number to permit of free ventilation and shall be kept covered ex- 
cept when contents are being removed or when garbage is being 
placed in the same. All members of the Board of Health or any 
employes thereof shall have authority to designate the location 
of said con or receptacle upon the premises where the same is kept. 


Section 386: Dumpage Ground For Garbage. No person shall 
permit any land owned, leased, occupied or controlled by him in 
the City of Alameda to be used as a dumpage ground for the con- 
tents of swill carts, or garbage, offal, filth, rubbish or other refuse 
matter of any kind whatever, except in that portion of said city 
hereinafter described, and no person shall deposit the contents of 
‘any swill cart, or garbage cart, or garbage, ashes. offal, 
rubbage, filth or other refuse matter upon any land in 
said city except within that portion of said city lying to 
land in said city except within that portion of said city lying to 
the east of Bay Farm Island Road, to the south of the Bay of San 
Leandro and to the north of the upland of Bay Farm Island. 


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Section 387: Maintenance of Barns And Stables. No person 
in said city shall erect, keep or maintain any stable, barn or stall 
within any distance less than twenty-five feet from any school- 
house or church, or from the dwelling house owned or occupied 
by any other person. 


Section 388: Keeping of Horses Within Certain Distance of 
Residence. No person in said city shall keep any horse or mule in 
any stable, barn, stall, shed, or stable yard within any distance 
less than twenty-five feet from any schoolhouse or church, or from 
any dwelling house owned or occupied by any other person. 


Section 389: Duty to Place Manure Used As Fertilizer Under 
Ground. It shall be the duty of every person using manure as a 
fertilizer to place said manure under ground, provided, however, 
that he may allow it to remain on the ground for a period not ex- 
ceeding 48 hours after spreading or placing it thereon. 


section 390: Keeping Manure In Suitable Receptacles. Upon 
the removal of manure or other refuse from stables the same shall 
not be piled or kept within any distance less than twenty feet from 
any schoolhouse or church, or from the dwelling house, owned 
or occupied by any other person, but said refuse must be kept in 
a box or receptacle with a tight cover and be removed from the 
premises within forty-eight hours. 


Section 391: Exemption of Livery Stables. Public livery sta- 
bles maintained in the City of Alameda the date of this article 
are exempted from the operation of Sections 387 and 388 thereof. 


Section 392: Maintenance of Livery or Boarding Stables. No 
person, firm or corporation in that part of Alameda hereinafter 
bounded and described shall, after the passage of this ordinance, 
establish and maintain, or establish any stable where more than 
four horses, mules or other draft animals are kept, stabled, 
boarded or fed unless said stable shall have walls of brick masonry 
or concrete and shall have a ground floor of cement and a roof of 
metal or other in combustible material. 

The part of said City of Alameda above mentioned shall consist 
of that portion of said city bounded by the following described 
line, to-wit: Commencing at the western extremity of Pacific Ave- 
nue and running thence easterly along the center line thereof to 
the center line of Webster or Seventh Street, thence northerly 


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along the center line of the street last mentioned to the center 
line of Eagle Avenue, thence easterly along the center line of Eagle 
Avenue to the center line of Grand Street, thence northerly along 
the center line of Grand Street to the center line of Clement Ave- 
nue, thence easterly along the center line of Clement Avenue to 
the center line of Broadway, thence in a right line easterly and 
parallel with Santa Clara Avenue to the shore line of the tidal 
canal, thence southerly along shore line thereof and of Bay of San 
Leandro and of Bay of San Francisco and westerly along said 
shore line to the point of commencement. 


section 393: Storage of More Than One Ton of Manure—Ne- 
cessity For Permit. No person shall keep, have, store or maintain 
and no person shall permit the keeping, having, storage or main- 
tenance on any premises in the City of Alameda, owned, occupied 
or controlled by him, of more than one ton of manure or other fer- 
tilzing matter, without first obtaining a permit so to do from the 
Board of Health or Health Officer of said City of Alameda. 

The Health Officer, and Board of Health are hereby authorized 
to issue such permits and, to revoke the same whenever in their 
judgment such action should be had in the interest of public health 
and sanitation, and upon such revocation being had the privilege 
conferred by such permit so revoked shall cease and terminate 
with like effect as if such permit had not been issued. 


section 394: Separate Offenses For Each Day. A violation by 
any person of any of the provisions of section 393 of this article 
for more than one day, shall constitute a separate offense for each 
and every day that said violation continues. 


section 395: Keeping of Cows Requiring maintenance of Cer- 
tain Area For Each Cow Kept. Every person who owns, keeps, 
stables, feeds, herds, pickets or milks any cow or cows in the City 
of Alameda shall provide and use for each cow so owned, kept, 
stabled, fed, herded, picketed or milked, an undivided area of at 
Jeast eight hundred and twenty-feet (825) square yards of ground. 


Section 396: Prohibiting Leasing of Less Area. No person 
shall permit any ground in the City of Alameda owned, leased, oc- 
eupied or controlled by him to be used for the keeping, stabling. 
feeding, herding, picketing or milking of any cow or cows in viol- 
ation of the provisions of Section 395 of this article. 


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Section 397: Limiting Proximity to Residence. No person 
shall, in said City, keep any cow or bull in any cow shed, or cow 
yard within any distance less than twenty-five feet from the dwell- 
ing house owned or occupied by any other person. 


Section 398: Keeping of Swine. No person in the City of Ala- 
meda shall keep or permit to be kept on premises owned, occupied 
or controlled by him any swine, unless the inclosure in which the 
same are kept is at least three hundred feet distant from premises 
owned or occupied by any other person; and no person shall keep 
at any place in said eity, excepting upon Bay Farm Island, more 
than five head of swine, unless the enclosure where said swine are 
kept is equal to one acre to each head of swine. 


Section 399: Regulating the Keeping of Chickens And Other 
Domestic Fowl. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or cor- 
poration to keep on any premises owned, occupied or controlled by 
him or it in the City of Alameda, any chickens, ducks, pigeons,, 
geese, turkeys, or other domestic fowl, unless such fowls are kept 
in an enclosure, no part of which is within twenty (20) feet of any 
dwelling-house occupied by human beings, excepting any and all 
dwelling-houses owned or occupied by such person, firm or cor- 
poration; provided that any of said fowls may be kept temporarily 
for purpose of sale at any shop or place of business where the 
same are bought, sold and dealt in. 


Section 400: Coops And Enclosures to Be Sanitary. All coops 
and enclosures in which any such fowl are kept must be kept in 
a sanitary manner, and be regularly cleaned, in order to prevent 
anv accumulation of manure or offal. 


Section 401: Disposition of Dead Animals. No person shall 
deposit or place any dead animal upon or in the ground, or upon 
the tide lands within the limits of the City of Alameda, without 
burying the same at least two feet below the natural surface of 
the ground; and no person shall deposit or place any dead animal 
in the waters of the Bay of San Francisco, or any of its estuaries 
within the City of Alameda. 


Section 402: Keeping Occupied Premises Connected With Run- 
ning Water.. No person shall, in the City of Alameda, occupy any 
building wthout having all plumbing in said building connected 


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with water under constant pressure so that the said plumbing may 
be flushed when necessary so to do. 


Section 403: Duty to Flush Plumbing Pipes. Every person oc- 
cupying a building in the City of Alameda, shall whenever it is 
necessary so to do or when requested so to do by an officer of the 
Board of Health of the city, flush the plumbing pipes of such 
building by turning on water under pressure into said pipes. 


Section 404: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 7—THE POUNDMASTER AND HIS DUTIES. 


Section 405: Establishment of Public Pound. A public pound 
is hereby authorized and established, which pound shall be located 
at a place to be designated from time to time by resolution of the 
City Couneil. 


Section 406: Duties of Poundmaster. It shall be the duty of 
the Poundmaster to take up, seize, and impound all horses, mules, 
asses, goats, cows, bulls, calves, sheep, swine, untagged dogs, or 
other domestic animals, or any of such animals, found running at 
large or estrayed, or herded in charge of any person, or staked, or 
in any manner grazing, or being grazed or fed, upon any public 
street, way, square, park, or place in said city (excepting on Bay 
Farm Island), or any of said animals which is upon or being led 
or driven upon any improved sidewalk in said city. 


Section 407: Right to Impound Trespassing Animals or Fowls. 
Any animal or fowl found trespassing upon any private property 
in said city may be taken up by any person and committed to the 
custody of the Poundmaster, who shall hold the same subject to 
reasonable demands for actual damage done by said animal or 
fowl, in addition to the fees prescribed herein. 


Section 408: Duty to Keep Record of Impounded Animals. 
The Poundmaster shall keep a true and faithful record of the num- 
ber and description of all animals taken into his custody, with the 
date of their receipt and the date and manner of their disposal, 
with the fees and charges collected on account of said animals, 
and the disposition thereof. Said record to be kept by the Pound- 
master in a book or books provided for that purpose, which shall 


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be the record book or books of the office of the Poundmaster and 
shall not be removed therefrom. He shall also’keep conspicuously 
posted at the entrance of the pound a list of all animals therein 
detained. He shall also provide necessary subsistence for all ani- 
mals while in his custody. 


Section 409: Requirements in Respect to Advertising. All an- 
imals, except dogs, taken into the custody of the Poundmaster, if 
not reclaimed within two (2) days thereafter, shall be advertised 
in the official paper of the City Council as follows: 

Horses, cows, bulls, oxen, mules, or asses for seven (7) days; all 
other animals, five (5) days. 

Provided, that swine, sheep, lambs, and goats, and dogs and 
other small animals or fowls may be advertised by written notice 
conspicuously posted on the pound gate and on the bulletin board 
at the Council roem door for five (5) days. Said notice shall des- 
eribe the animals impounded and give time and place of sale. 


Section 410: Sale of Impounded Animals And Disposition of 
Proceeds. At the time specified in and after said advertisement, 
as provided in Section 408 of this ordinance, or at any postpone- 
ment thereof, the Poundmaster shall sell for cash all animals so 
advertised, and out of the proceeds of the sale thereof pay his pro- 
per fees and charges, and all reasonable and proper demands made 
under the provisions of Section 407 of this ordinance. 

Any balance of the proceeds of a sale of any animal remaining 
after the payment of such fees, charges, and demands, shall be 
paid into the city treasury, for the use of the owner of such ani- 
mal, if claimed within six (6) months thereafter; if not, the same 
shall be turned into the general fund of such treasury. 


Section 411: Right to Redeem Before Sale. The owner or per- 
sons entitled to the control of any animal impounded, may at any 
time before the sale or other disposition thereof, redeem the same 
by paying to the Poundmaster all proper fees and charges thereon, 
made by virtue of any of the provisions of this ordinance. 


Section 412: Necessity For Unlicensed Dogs to Be Under 
Leash. No person owning or having possession of any dog, over 
three months old, shall suffer or permit the same to be upon any 
public street of the City without being held or led by a cord, chain, 
or other thing, or confined in a vehicle, unless such dog has around 


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its neck such a collar as is in this article provided, or conspicu- 
ously attached to its body a strap or buckle, having attached 
thereto such metallic plate or tag with such inscriptions thereon 
as are in this article provided, nor unless a license tax for the then 
current year has been paid as herein stated. 


Section 413: Care of Dogs During Period of Oestruation. No 
person owning or having in possession of any female dog shall 
suffer or permit the same to be upon any public street of the City 
during the period of oestruation of said dog without being held or 
led by a cord, chain, or other thing, or confined in a vehicle; pro- 
vided that any dog other than a female during such period of oes- 
truation taken up by the Poundmaster shall be released without 
charge upon its being shown that such dog does not belong in this 
city, and is not kept or harbored here, and that it has not been 
within the city limits more than twenty-four hours continuously 
next preceding the time when it was taken up. 


Section 414: Imposition and Collection of License Taxes— 
Amount. Every person who owns, harbors, or has in his posses- 
sion or control any dog over three (3) months of age in the City 
of Alameda shall pay a license tax of Two (2) Dollars per annum 
for each and every male or female dog so owned, harbored, con- 
trolled or possessed by him; and no person shall own, keep, har- 
bor or possess any dog within the corporate limits of the City of 
Alameda for which the license tax imposed by this ordinance has 
not been paid. The license tax imposed by this section shall be 
paid and collected in the manner and at the times prescribed by 
ordinance for other license taxes and shall be subject to the con- 
ditions so prescribed for such other license taxes as far as the same 
are applicable. A fee of fifty (50) cents shall be paid for each 
dupleate license tag. 

Section 415: Untagged Dogs And Dogs During Oestruation 
At Large. Every dog over three (3) months old not having on 
such collar, buckle or strap and tag, and every female dog during 
the period of oestruation thereof, found or being in any public 
street of said City and not being held or led by cord, chain, or 
other thing, nor confined in any vehicle, shall be taken by the 
Poundmaster to, and impounded in, the Public Pound, where it 
may be redeemed by the owner or persons theretofore entitled to 
the possession of it within five (5) days thereafter, on payment to 


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the Poundmaster of Two (2) Dollars in the case of untagged dogs 
and Ten (10) Dollars in the case of female dogs taken during the 
period of oestruation as aforesaid; but, if not so redeemed, such 
dog shall be killed and buried by the Poundmaster ; provided, that 
the Poundmaster is authorized to keep valuable dogs and sell them 
and his receipt for the sale thereof, endorsed by the City Clerk, 
shal be a valid title to the purchaser. If a license tax has not 
been paid for the then current year, for any impounded dog, the 
party redeeming must, before redemption, pay such license tax; 
provided, that in case of loss of tag a duplicate of the same must 
be obtained as provided in this ordinance, and on presentation of 
said duplicate tag the owner of said impounded dog shall be en- 
titled to the possession of the same on payment of Fifty (50) cents 
and costs. Whenever a dog is redeemed, the party redeeming 
must give to the Poundmaster duplicate receipts of the same, one 
of which shall be delivered by the Poundmaster with his monthly 
report. The Poundmaster must give to any person redeeming a 
dog a receipt for the redemption money. In case it is satisfactor- 
ily proven to the Poundmaster that the license tax for the then 
current year has been paid upon any dog impounded for want of 
a tag, said dog shall be released upon payment of a fee of Fifty 
(50) cents and costs. 


Section 416: Right of Any Person to Take Up Dog During Oes- 
truation. In addition to the Poundmaster, any person may take 
up any female dog found or being in any public street of said City 
during the period of oestruation of said dog, and not being held 
or led by cord, chain, or other thing, nor confined in any vehicle 
and it shall be the duty of such person to immediately deliver such 
female dog to the Poundmaster who shall give to such person a re- 
eeipt for such female dog and thereafter if such female dog is re- 
deemed or sold, as hereinbefore provided, such person shall be en- 
titled to receive and collect from said Poundmaster the sum of 
One (1) Dollar out of the redemption fee or proceeds of the sale 
of such female dog. 


Section 417: Chief of Police to Furnish Metallic Tags to Lic- 
enses. The Chief of Police is hereby required to procure, at the ex- 
pense of the city, metallic plates or tags, having thereon the num- 
ber of the license and figures indicating the year for which the 
tax has been paid, and he shall register, in a book to be kept for 


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that purpose, the name of the owner or possessor and a deseription 
of the dog for which the license is issued, and the number of the 
heense, and shall deliver such tag, having thereon the number of 
the license, to every person paying for such license. The cost of 
such plates or tags shall not exceed twenty-five cents each unless 
the City Council shall authorize a larger expenditure. 


Section 418: Dogs to Have Collar And Tag. Every registered 
dog shall be provided by the owner or possessor of such dog with 
a collar, at least three-fourths of an inch in width, and have at- 
tached to such collar such a metallic plate or tag having such in- 
scriptions thereon as are specified in Section 416. 


Section 419: Right to Duplicate Tag. Whenever a tag issued 
for the then current year by the Chief of Police has been stolen, 
or lost, the owner or possessor of the dog for which the same was 
issued may on the payment of fifty cents to the Chief of Police and 
on making and subscribing to an affidavit of such loss, and filing 
the same with the Chief of Police, receive from the Chief of Police 
a duplicate tag for the remaining portion of the then current year. 
(As amended by Ord. No. 2, N. 8.) 


Section 420: Poundmaster to Furnish Monthly Reports. The 
Poundmaster shall make a true and correct report to the City 
Council, under oath, on the first Monday of each month, of the 
number of dogs and other animals and fowls impounded by him 
during the preceding month, and of the disposition made of them, 
and of the number redeemed and by whom redeemed, and of the 
amount of money received for redemption or otherwise. He shall 
be entitled to retain for his own use all moneys so obtained for re- 
demption. He may at any time appoint deputies to assist him, at 
his own expense, in the performance of his duties. 


Section 421: Duty to Furnish Food And Water to Impound- 
ed Dogs. The Poundmaster shall feed one (1) pound of meat each 
day to each dog impounded, at a cost not exceeding five cents per 
day. He shall also provide sufficient water for all dogs im- 
pounded, and food and water for all other animals impounded. 


Section 422: Duty Respecting Ferocious Dogs. If any dog 
while running or being at large in any public street, lane, alley, 
public ground or place in said city shall bite any human being, it 
shall be the duty of any police officer, the Poundmaster or any of 


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his deputies, or the person who owns, harbors or keeps said dog to 
canse said dog to be immediately killed. 


Section 423: To Wear Badge of Office. The Poundmaster and 
Deputies shall each wear, while engaged in the discharge of their 
duties, a plain badge designating their office. 


Section 424: Resisting Poundmaster. No person shall resist or 
interfere with the Poundmaster or any of his deputies in the dis- 
charge of their official duties. 


section 425: Allowing Animals to Graze In Public Places. It 
shall hereafter be unlawful for the owner or owners, or person or 
persons having the control of any animal mentioned in Section 
406 of this ordinance, except the owner or owners, or person or 
persons having the control of such horses, or mules, or asses, or 
oxen, harnessed or saddled, and at the time in the actual custody 
of some person or persons, and of licensed dogs, to permit or allow 
the animals or any of them not mentioned in said exception to run 
at large or to be found grazing, or being grazed or herded, or in 
charge of any person or persons upon any public street, or square, 
or public ground, or place, or court, or alley in the City of Ala- 
meda, excepting Bay Farm Island. 


Section 426: Duty of Poundmaster to Notify Owner of Im- 
pounding. The Poundmaster shall within twenty-four (24) hours 
after the impounding of any animal or animals cause to be deli- 
vered to the owner or keeper of the same, if a resident of said city, 
and if known to said Poundmaster, or cause to be left at the place 
of business or residence of any such person, if in said city, a writ- 
ten notice that such animal has been impounded, with a descrip- 
tion of the animal or animals impounded, and date of impounding. 
If the owner or keeper of said animal or animals is-not known to 
the Poundmaster, or is not a resident of said city, the Poundmas- 
ter shall, within said period of twenty-four (24) hours, post up 
a like notice on the bulletin board in front of the City Hall of this 
city. Ifsaid owner or keeper is not a resident of said city, and his 
place of residence or of business is known to the Poundmaster, he 
shall, within said period of twenty-four (24) hours, send him a 
like notice by mail. 


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Section 427: Fees to Be Charged By Poundmaster. The 
Poundmaster shall charge the fees hereinafter set forth in connec- 
tion with the impounding of animals namely, viz :— 

For every horse, mule, ass, bull, ox, cow or calf the sum of two 
dollars, and also fifty cents per day or fraction of a day for keep- 
ing each of said animals, to be paid by the owner thereof. 


For every sheep, goat or hog impounded the sum of fifty cents 
and twenty-five cents per day or fraction of a day for keeping 
each of said animals to be paid by the owner thereof. 


When any of said animals are kept as aforesaid by the Pound- 
master without redemption and no sale thereof is had after pro- 
ceedings therefor, as provided in this Ordinance, the expense of 
keeping said animals as herein established shall be a charge 
against the city for not more than ten days of such keep, to be paid 
to said Poundmaster. 


For posting Notice of animals impounded other than the Notice 
posted at the Pound the sum of one dollar for each notice, to be 
collected only in case of redemption or sale. 

For publishing notices, the actual cost of such publication. 

For conducting sale, the sum of one dollar for each animal sold. 
_ For impeunding any unlicensed dog, the sum of two dollars. 

For impounding any licensed but untaged dog, the sum of fifty 
eenis) 


For feeding dogs at the rate of five cents per day, charge to be 
paid by the owner on redemption and in case redemption is not 
made then the expense of such keep for not exceeding five days 
shall be a charge against the city to be paid to the Poundmaster. 


For removing from the public street any dead horse or other 
draft animal or any dead cow or ox, the sum of two dollars shall 
be paid by the city upon demand of the person performing such 
service. 


For removing from any sand beach any dead horse or other 
draft animal of any dead cow or ox, the actual cost of such re- 
moval to be paid by the city upon demand of the person perform- 
ing the service. 

For removing from private property, except property of the city 
any dead horse or other draft animal or any dead cow or ox the 
sum of two dollars to be paid by the person for whom such service 
is made. 


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For removing from private property except property of the city 
any dead dog, cat, goat or sheep, fifty cents each and for removing 
from private property except property of the city any dead 
chicken, twenty-five cents each. 


section 428: Fees to Be paid to City Treasury. Ali fees and 
charges collected by the Poundmaster shall be paid by him into 
the Treasury of the City of Alameda and placed in the General 
Fund thereof, except such fees or charges as are collected by him 
for the actual keep of animals and for removing dead horses or 
other draft animals or any dead cow or ox where such service is 
made by the Poundmaster. 


section 429: Office Hours of Poundmaster. The poundmaster 
or his duly authorized deputy shall attend at the public pound 
during business days between the hours of nine A. M. and ten A. 
M., one P. M. and two P. M., and five P. M. and six P. M., and on 
holidays between the hours of nine A. M. and ten A. M., and five 
P. M. and six P. M., during which time the pound shall be open to 
the transaction of all business pertaining thereto. The pound- 
master and the public pound shall be subject to the direction and 
supervision of the Street Committee of the Council of the City of 
Alameda. 


Section 430: Postponement of Sale. If sale is not made by the 
Poundmaster at the time stated in his published or posted notice, 
the sale may be by him postponed from day to day until the ani- 
mals offered are sold. Notice of such postponement shall be given 
in the same manner, as provided for the original notice of sale, but 
no fees shall be allowed the Poundmaster for posting notices of 
such postponement. 


Section 431: Owner May Reclaim Animal Before Sale. Any 
animal may be reclaimed by the owner or person entitled to its 
control before the sale thereof, by paying all fees and charges that 
have been incurred or accrued up to the time of reclamation. and 
any such animal may be reclaimed after having been taken up by 
the Poundmaster and before it has been placed in the Pound, by 
paying the same fee that the Poundmaster would be entitled to if 
the animal were actually impounded. 


Section 432: Right of Poundmaster to Retain His Own Fees 
And Costs. The Poundmaster shall be entitled to retain for his 


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own use out of the sum received for reclamation or sale of any 
animal or animals, the fees allowed him by this article and costs 
for keeping animals. 


Section 433: Duty to Remove Dead Animals Found On Public 
Streets. It shall be the duty of the Poundmaster to remove from 
the public streets and sand beaches of said city any animal found 
dead thereon. 


Section 434: Right to Re-Take Animals Improperly Released. 
The Poundmaster may retake within six (6) days any animal dir- 
ectly or indirectly conveyed or delivered out of the pound without 
lawful authority, and again impound and retain the same, and pro- 
ceed as heretofore provided in the same manner as if said animal 
had never been released from the pound; provided, that when any 
animal escapes from the pound without the assistance or know- 
ledge of the owner thereof, the Poundmaster shall not be entitled 
to fees for again impounding the same within said period of six. 
(6) days. 


Section 435:Poundmaster to Furnish Bond. The Poundmaster 
shall execute a bond in favor of said city and all persons injured 
by his acts in the sum of one hundred dollars. 


Section 436: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor. 


Article 8—PUBLIC LAUNDRIES. 


Section 437: Prescribing Limits of Public Laundry District. 
No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter establish any public 
laundry, or conduct and maintain any public laundry hereafter es- 
tablished, within that portion of the City of Alameda lying to the 
south of a certain line deseribed as follows: Commencing at the 
western extremity of Pacific Avenue and running thence easterly 
along the center line thereof to the center line of Webster Street, 
thence northerly along the center line of the street last mentioned 
to the center line of Eagle Avenue, thence easterly along the cen- 
ter line of Eagle Avenue to the center line of Grand Street, thence 
northerly along the center line of Grand street to the center line of 
Clement Avenue, thence easterly along the center line of Clement 
Avenue to the center line of Broadway, thence in a right line eas- 


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terly and parallel with Santa Clara Avenue to an intersection with 
the boundary line of said city. 


Section 438: Permitting Premises In Prescribed Limits to Be 
So Used. No person, firm or corporation shall permit any prem- 
ises owned or controlled by him or it, within the limits above des- 
eribed, to be used as a public laundry contrary to the provisions 
of Section 437 of this article. 


Section 439: Prescribing Manner In Which Laundries Are to 
Be Constructed. No person, firm or corporation shall carry on the 
business of a public laundry, or wash or iron clothes in any public 
laundry within that portion of the City of Alameda hereinafter 
described, unless such laundry shall be constructed or equipped 
as follows: 

First. The entire floor of the room or rooms where clothes are 
washed must be cemented with artificial stone at least three inches 
thick, and so arranged that all water upon said floor will drain 
into a sump trap, and from thence by suitable connections into a 
public sewer. 

Secondly. The chimney, or chimneys in said laundry shall be 
constructed of brick or iron to a height extending at least three 
feet above the intersection of the roof and chimney and no wooden 
beams or timber shall be placed within six inches of any flue, or 
heating apparatus. All chimneys in said laundries shall be co.- 
structed in accordanée with this Municipal Code. 

Thirdly. The foundation of the washroom of said laundry shall 
be constructed of not less than four courses of brick, or an equal 
amount of stone or cement, or the inner walls of the washroom ce- 
mented to the height of three feet from the cement floor and be 
connected with said floor by water-tight joints so as to prevent 
water from escaping to or saturating the foundations. 


Fourthly. In addition to the room where clothes are washed or 
ironed in said laundry there must be provided a separate and clean 
apartment where laundered clothing is to be kept until delivered. 

Wifthly. The wash-room, ironing-room and room where laun- 
dried clothing is kept, must each be provided with two windows 
having at least fifteen square feet of glass and so constructed that 
they may be used for ventilation as well as the admission of sun- 
hight. 


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Sixthly. Said Laundry must in all other respects be constructed 
and maintained in accordance with the sanitary regulations ad- 
opted by the City Council or by the Board of Health, and with the 
Ordinances of this city for protection against fire. 

The limits above referred to are hereby determined as follows: 
That portion of the City of Alameda within the following des- 
eribed lines: 

Commencing at the point of intersection of the easterly line of 
Third Street and the northerly line of Taylor Avenue, running 
thence northerly along said line of Third street to the southern 
line of Pacific Avenue, thence easterly thereon to the western line 
of Sixth Street, thence northerly thereon to the southern line of 
Buena Vista Avenue, thence easterly thereon to the westerly line 
of Grand Street, thence northerly thereon to the southerly line 
of Eagle Avenue, thence easterly thereon to the western line of 
Oak Street, thence northerly thereon to the northerly boundary of 
said City; thence easterly thereon to the easterly line of Broad- 
way, extended northerly, thence southerly and along said line of 
Broadway, to the northerly line of Buena Vista avenue, thence eas- 
terly thereon to the westerly line of Versailles Avenue, thence 
southerly thereon to the northerly line of Santa Clara Avenue, 
thence easterly thereon to the westerly line of High Street, thence 
southerly thereon to the northerly line of San Jose Avenue, thence 
westerly thereon to the easterly line of Broadway, thence south- 
erly along said line of Broadway and same produced southerly to 
the shore line of San Francisco Bay, thence westerly along said 
shore line to the easterly line of Grand Street, thence northerly 
thereon to the southerly line of San Antonio Avenue, thence wes- 
terly thereon to the easterly line of Ninth Street, thence northerly 
thereon to the southerly line of Central Avenue, thence westerly 
thereon to the easterly line of Fourth Street, thence northerly 
thereon to the southerly line of Taylor Avenue, and thence wes- 
terly thereon to the point of beginning. 


Section 440: No One to Sleep In Laundry Room.. Within the 
City of Alameda it shall be unlawful for any person to sleep in 
any room in a public laundry where clothes are washed or kept 
for washing or distribution. 


Section 441: Manner In Which Clothes Are to Be Dampened. 
No person shall, in the City of Alameda dampen clothing for the 


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purpose of enabling the same to be ironed except by hand or ina- 
chinery. 


Section 442: Necessity to Have Proper Sewer Connections. No 
person shall carry on the business of a public laundry or the wash- 
ing of clothes for hire, on any land or in any building within the 
corporate limits of the City of Alameda, until there is on said land, 
or connected with said building, an underground sewer or sewers, 
of sufficient capacity to convey all impure water from said land or 
building to a main intercepting city sewer. 


Section 443: Laundries to Provide Proper Sewer Connections. 
No person shall permit any land or building owned or controlled 
by him, within said City, to be used for the business of a laundry, 
or the business of washing clothes for hire, until there is on said 
land, or connected with said building, an underground sewer or 
sewers of sufficient capacity to convey all impure water from said 
land or building to a main intercepting city sewer. 


Section 444: Must Not Create a Nuisance. No person shall, in 
the City of Alameda, maintain or carry on the laundry business 
in such a manner as to create a nuisance, or be detrimental to the 
public health or comfort. 


Section 445: Prohibiting Laundry Work In Night Time. No 
person employed in and no proprietor of any public laundry in 
the City of Alameda shall wash or iron clothes, or permit clothes 
to be washed or ironed between the hours of ten in the evening 
and the hour of five o’clock in the morning of any day, within 
that portion of the City of Alameda bounded and described as 
follows: Commencing at the southeastern corner of Pacific Ave- 
nue and First Avenue (otherwise called West End Avenue) ; 
thence along Pacific Avenue easterly to Webster Street; thence 
northerly along Webster Street 660 feet; thence easterly parallel 
with Pacific Avenue to Oak Street; thence northerly along Oak 
Street to the northerly boundary line of the City of Alameda; 
thence easterly along said line to Broadway; thence southerly 
along Broadway to Buena Vista Avenue; thence easterly along 
Buena Vista Avenue to Versailles Avenue; thence southerly along 
Versailles Avenue to Central Avenue and thence easterly along 
ventral Avenue to the westerly line of High Stret; thence south- 
erly along said lne of High Street and the same extended in a 


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straight line to the southern boundary line of the City of Ala- 
meda; thence westerly along the last named line to said First 
Avenue, and thence northerly along the eastern line of First Ave- 
nue to the point of beginning. 


Section 446: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. | 


Article 9—PUBLIC BATHS. 


Section 447: Regulating the Conduct And Maintenance of 
Public Bath Houses. Every person, firm or corporation engaged 
in the business or occupation, for hire, or otherwise, of providing 
and affording facilities to the public for bathing and who shall 
keep and maintain for such purpose any stationary or movable re- 
ceptacle or receptacles for holding water, shall, at all times, keep 
and maintain said receptacle or receptacles in a cleanly and sani- 
tary condition. And said receptacle or receptacles shall be lined 
with porcelain or some suitable metal, stone, tile or cement lining 
and shall have proper sewer connections. 


Section 448: Prohibiting Use, By More Than One Person. It 
shall be unlawful for any such person, firm or corporation, des- 
cribed in Section 447 hereof, or any manager, or employe thereof, 
to permit more than one person to occupy or use any such recept- 
acle at the same time, or to permit any person to occupy or use 
any such receptacle until the same is emptied of the water used 
by the previous occupant, and said receptacle thoroughly cleaned. 


Section 449: Prohibiting Males And Females Using Same 
Room or Compartment. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, 
or corporation described in Section 447 hereof, or any manager, 
or employe, thereof, to allow male and female persons using said 
receptacles, described in Section 447 hereof, to dress or undress 
or to bathe in the same room or compartment and it shall likewise 
be unlawful for any male or female person to dress or undress or 
bathe in the presence of one or more of the opposite sex. This 
section, however, shall not apply to husband and wife, or parents 
bathing children under the age of 15 years. 


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section 450: Exception As to Swimming Tanks. Nothing in 
this ordinance shall apply to any person, firm or corporation con- 
ducting and operating any tank or receptacle for swimming pur- 
poses, which tank or receptacle covers an area of over two hun- 
dred and fifty (250) square feet, and which tank and receptacle 
attains a depth of at least three feet and which is not used. or 
maintained for washing or cleansing purposes 


Section 451: Misdemeanor. Any person violating the provi- 
sions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 1O—-MATERNITY HOSPITALS 


Section 452: Duty to Obtain Permit to Establish And Main- 
tain. No person in the City of Alameda shall establish, maintain, 
conduct or manage any maternity hospital or lying-in asylum 
where females are or may be received, cared for or treated dur- 
ing pregnancy or during or after delivery without having first ob- 
tained a written permit so to do from the Board of Health of said 
eity. 

The Board of Health shall have power to issue such permits and 
every such permit shall specify the name and residence of the per- 
son so undertaking to care for such females and the location of 
the place where the same are kept and the said permit shall be 
revocable for cause by the said Board of Health in any case where 
the provisions of this ordinance are violated. 


Section 453: Duty to Keep Register of Patients, Births and 
Children Adopted. Every person holding such permit must keep 
a register wherein he shall enter the names and addresses of all 
such females and of all children born on the premises, and also 
the name and age of every child who is given out, adopted or 
taken away to or by any person, together with the name and resi- 
dence of the person so adopting or taking away such child; and 
within forty-eight hours after such child is given out or taken 
away Shall cause a correct transcript of said register relating to 
such child to be sent to the said Board of Health, 


Section 454: Inspection ‘By Health Authorities. It shall be 
the duty of the Health Officer of said city and the privilege of 
the members of said Board of Health to enter and inspect the 
premises where such females are so boarded, received and kept, 


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and to eall for and inspect the permit and register, and also to 
see and visit said females. 


Section 455: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 11—REMOVAL OR DESTRUCTION OF WEEDS, 
GRASS, GARBAGE, UNSAFE BUILDINGS OR STRUC- 
TURES OR OTHER DANGEROUS OBJECTS OR MATER- 
TALS. 


Section 456: Obstruction of Sidewalks By Weeds, Grass And 
Other Vegetable Growths. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for 
any person having the control, possession or ownership of any lot 
of land within the limits of the City of Alameda, to permit or al- 
low the sidewalks in front of said lot of land to become obstructed 
by weeds, grass or other vegetable growth in such manner as to 
deface the sidewalk, impede travel or menace the public safety in 
the matter of fire. 


Section 457: Duty of Street Superintendent to Notify Owner 
to Remove Weeds, Etc. Whenever the Street Superintendent 
shall find weeds, grass, or any vegetable broken, unlawful. dan- 
gerous, dilapidated, or unsafe fences, buildings or structures, or 
any other materials, upon any sidewalk or street, or in front of 
or on any property, land or lots in the City of Alameda, he shall 
give, or cause to be given notice to remove such weeds, grass, or 
other vegetable growth or garbage or rubbish, or broken, or un- 
safe fences, buildings or structures, or other material, in the man- 
ner hereinafter provided. 


Section 458: How Notice Is to Be Given. Such notice shall be 
given by posting in a conspicuous place upon the property, land 
or lot in front of, or upon which said weeds, grass, or other vege- 
table growth, or garbage or rubbish, or broken, unlawful, dan- 
gerous, dilapidated, or unsafe fences, buildings or structures, or 
other material are, a notice headed, ‘‘Notice of Sanitary and Safe- 
ty Improvements”’ in letters not less than one (1) inch in length, 
and which shall in legible characters direct the removal of weeds, 
grass or other vegetable growth, or garbage or rubbish, or broken, 
unlawful, dangerous, delapidated, or unsafe fences, build.ngs, 


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or structures, or other material, as thé case may be, 
and refer to this ordinance for further particulars.  Per- 
sonal service of a notice similar in substance upon the owner; 0c- 
cupant, or agent in charge of such property, land or lot, shall dis- 
pense with the posting of the notice herein provided for. 


Section 459: Right to Appeal From Order of Street Super- 
intendent. Within ten (10) days from the date of posting of such 
notice, or case of personal service, within ten (10) days from the 
date of the personal service thereof, the owner of, or any person 
having an interest in the property, land or lot affected by such 
notice, may appeal to the City Council from the requirements 
thereot. Such appeal shall be in writing and shall be filed with 
the City Clerk. At the next regular meeting of the City Council 
it shall proceed to hear and pass upon such appeal and its deci- 
sions thereupon shall be final and conclusive. 


Section 460: Right to Remove Weeds, Etc. In Absence of Ap- 
Peal. Unless within ten (10) days from the date of the posting 
of the notice provided for in section 456 hereof, or in case per- 
sonal notice is given, within ten (10) days from the date of per- 
sonal service thereof, or in case of appeal to the City Council 
within ten (10) days from the date of the determination thereof, 
unless the same is sustained, the weeds, grass, or any vegetable 
growth, or garbage or rubbish, or broken, unlawful, dangerous, 
dilapidated, or unsafe fences, buildings or structures, or other 
material, as the case may be, are removed from said property, 
land or lot as directed by said notice, or hy the City Couneil on 
appeal, the Street Superintendent shall thereupon remove or des- 
troy, or cause the same to be removed or destroyed. If upon ap- 
peal the requirements of the original notice are modified, the 
Street Superintendent in removing or destroying, or causing to be 
removed or destroyed, such weeds, grass, or any vegetable growth, 
or garbage or rubbish, or broken, unlawful, dangerous, dilapi- 
dated, or unsafe fences, buildings or structures, or other material, 
shall be governed by the determination of the City Couneil so 
made, 


Section 461: Record Book of Property Affected to Be Kept. 
The Street Superintendent shall keep, or cause to be kept in his 
office a permanent record book showing the description of each 
piece of property, land or lot upon, or in front of which weeds, 


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grass, or any vegetable growth, or garbage or rubbish, or broken, 
unlawful, dangerous, dilapidated, or unsafe fences, buildings or 
structures, or other material, are removed or destroyed under the 
provisions of this ordinance, the name of the owner thereof, if 
known, the date of posting notice herein provided for, or in case 
of personal service, the date of such personal service, and in ease 
of appeal, the date of determination of the City Council and the 
expense incurred in the removal or destruction of such weeds, 
grass, or other vegetable growth, or garbage or rubbish, or bro- 
ken, unlawful, dangerous, dilapidated, or unsafe fences, buildings 
or structures, or other material. 


Section 462: Right to Appeal From Act of Street Superin- 
tendent in Removing Weeds, Etc. Between the Ist and 15th day 
of July of each year, the Street Superintendent shall cause to be 
published a notice to the effect that any person affected or ag- 
grieved by any act or determination of the Street Superintendent 
or of the City: Council hereunder during the preceding fiscal year, 
may at any time prior to the first day of August next succeeding, 
appeal therefrom to the City Council. Said notice shall be pub- 
lished for five (5) days in a newspaper published and circulated 
in the City of Alameda. At” any time prigp Spy 
first day of August next succeeding, and person affected or 
aggrieved by any act or determination of the Street Superinten- 
dent or of the City Council made hereunder during the preceding 
fiscal year, may appeal therefrom to the City Couneil. Such ap- 
peal shall be in writing and shall be filed with the City Clerk. At 
the next regular meeting of the City Council after the first day 
of August it shall proceed to hear and pass upon such appeal, and 
its determination thereupon shall be final and conclusive. The 
Street Superintendent shall carry out any directions of the City 
Council made upon appeal, and he shall cause appropriate cor- 
rections and entries to be made in his.said record book to conform 
therewith. 


Section 463: Proceedings By Which Costs of Removal Become 
Lien On Property. At the expiration of the time for appeal as 
herein provided, or upon the determination of the City Council 
upon appeal and on compliance with the requirements of any de- 
termination so made, the Street Superintendent shall deliver to 
the Auditor and Assessor an abstract of the entries in the record 


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book herein provided to be kept for the preceding fiscal year. 
Such abstract shall show the property affected and the amount 
charged there against. The Auditor and Assessor shall thereupon 
note the amount of each such charge on the assessment books of 
city taxes against the respective lots charged, and thereafter the 
amount of each such charge shall be a lien against the respective 
property charged therewith of the same character and effect, and 
shall be collected in the same manner and at the same time as city 
taxes. The provisions of this section shall not apply as to any 
piece of property of land or lot, the charge against which has been 
paid prior to the delivery to the Auditor and Assessor of said ab- 
stract, but in such case an appropriate entry shall be made in the 
said record book by the said Street Superintendent, showing that 
such charge has been paid. 


Section 464: Proof of Publication of Notice. Proof of the 
publication, posting or service of any notice, order or determina- 
tion provided for in this article shall be made by the affidavit of 
the printer of the newspaper in which published, his foreman or 
principal clerk, or the person posting or serving the notice, order 
or determination annexed to a copy of order, notice or determin- 
ation published, posted or served, as the case may be, and speuily- 
ing the time when, or at which the same was published, posted 
or served, as the case may be. It shall be the duty of the Street 
Superintendent to keep among the official records of his office the 
affidavits of publication, posting or service herein provided for. 
Charges made against property under the provisions of this ar- 
ticle may be paid to the Street Superintendent prior to the deli- 
very to the Auditor and Assessor of the abstract mentioned in sec- 
tion 463 of this ordinance, and all moneys so paid to the Street 
Superintendent shall be by him deposited with the Treasurer of 
said city and by said Treasurer shall thereafter be placed in the 
Street Fund of said City of Alameda. 


Article 12—THINGS IN NATURE OF PUBLIC NUISANCE. 


Section 465: Allowing Poison Oak to Grow On Premises. It 


shall be unlawful, and is hereby declared a nuisance, for any per- 
son owning, leasing or possessing land in the City of Alameda, to 
permit poison oak to grow, mature, or remain on land so owned, 
leased or possessed by such person. 


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Section 466: Declaring Certain Trees Growing In Public 
Streets Nuisances. Any pine, poplar, cottonwood or eucalyptus 
tree growing in any public street or sidewalk which is endanger- | 
ing or which may in any way endanger the security or usefulness 
of any public sewer or sidewalk is hereby declared a publie nui- 
sance, 


Section 467: How The Nuisance May Be Abated. Whenever 
it may appear to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Streets 
that public necessity requires the removal of any tree coming un- 
der the provisions of Section 466 of this article, it shall be the duty 
of said Superintendent of Streets to report the same to the Coun- 
cil and the Council may by resolution order the same removed, 
and the said Superintendent of Streets, after the adoption of such 
resolution, shall have authority to remove the same forthwith. 


Section 468: Distribution of Poisonous Drugs In Public Places. 
No person, in said city, shall, on any public street, or park, or up- 
on any premises not occupied or controlled by him, place any poi- 
son, drug, or medicine, where the same may be obtained by chil- 
dren. 


Section 469: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
meanor. 


CHAPTER VII 


INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 


Articles .I—LICENSES FOR SALE OF INTOXICATING 
LIQUORS. 


Section 470: Necessity for a License to Sell Intoxicating Li- 
quors. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person. firm 
or corporation to establish, open, keep, maintain or carry on 
within the City of Alameda any saloon, bar, store. dramshop, 
tippling place, stand, or any place where spirituous, malt or 
fermented liquors or wines, or any admixture thereof, are sold or 
given away; or for any person, firm or corporation ( except as 
hereinafter provided) to sell, barter or give away by soliciting 


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or procuring orders or otherwise, or by delivering as prineipal, 
agent, employee, carrier or otherwise, any spirituous, malt or 
fermented liquors or wines, or any admixture thereof, within 
the City of Alameda, without having the permission and liceuse 
therefore, as in this ordinance provided. 


Section 471: Necessity to Display License. Every person, fir 
or corporation receiving a license under this ordinance shall place 
the same so that it shall at all times be conspicuous and easy to 
read at his chief place of making sales, and no license shall permit 
sales by any person, firm or corporation who shall neglect this 
requirement. 


Section 472: License Not Assignable Without Permission. No 
license issued under any of the provisions of this ordinance skall 
be assignable or transferable without the consent of the said City 
Council indorsed thereon, and only to such person, firm, or « r- 
poration as have filed a bond, as hereinafter provided, and com- 
plied in all other respects with the preliminary requiremenis of 
this ordinance. 

Section 473: Requisites in Application For License. No per- 


son, firm, or corporation shall have issued to him or them the 
license required by this ordinance unless such person, firm, or 
corporation be of good character, and first make application to 
the said City Council for permission to obtain the license herein 
required, and receive such permission. Said application shall be 
in writing, and be filed with the Clerk of said city, and must 
set forth: 

First, the name and residence of the applicant or applicants, 
and how long he or they have there resided. 

Second, the particular place for which a license is desired. 

Third, the name of the owner of the premises. 

Fourth, that the applicant or applicants are the only person 
or persons in any manner interested in the business asked to be 
licensed, and that no other person shall be in any manner inter- 
ested therein during the continuance of the permission. 

Fifth, that the applicant or applicants have not had a license 
for the sale of liquors in the City of Alameda during any time 
preceding his or their present application revoked. 

This application must be verified by the affidavit of the appli- 
cant or applicants, made before the City Clerk or a Notary 


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Public, and must be accompanied by a written recommendation 
setting forth that the applicant or applicants are of good chii- 
acter and suitable to conduct such a place, which recommendation 
must be signed by at least twenty-five or a majority of the resi- 
dent heads of families and proprietors of places of business act- 
ually occupying premises fronting on a public street withiu a 
distance of six hundred measured feet in all directions from the 
front entrance of the place where the said business of the pple 
cant is to be carried on. Each person signing said reeommenda- 
tion must be a householder or free holder in said Ci 0 ae 
‘head of the family’”’ shall be such as is defined in Section 1261 
of the Civil Code of the State of California, as follows: 

(1) The husband, when the claimant is a married person; and 
(2) every person who has been residing on the premises with him 
or her, and under his or her care and maintenance: (Ty) Hisar 
her minor child, or the minor child of his or her deceased wife ov 
husband; (2) a minor brother or sister, or the minor child of 
a deceased brother or sister; (3) a father, mother. grandfather 
or grandmother; (4) the father, mother, grandfather or erand- 
mother of the deceased husband or wife; (5) an unmarried siste.:, 
or any other of the relatives mentioned in this section who have 
attained the age of majority, and are unable to take care of or 
support themselves. 

Provided, however, that no person who is an occupant of the 
premises in which the applicant proposes to carry on the said 
business shall be eligible to sign said recommendation; and pro- 
vided, further, that where there are no resident freeholders or 
householders who are heads of families or proprietors of places 
of business occupying premises fronting on a public street within 
the distance of 600 feet above described, said Council may in its 
discretion, grant the application without such recommendation. 

Section 474: Necessity to Furnish Bond—Nature of Bond. 
Such applicant or applicants shall, at the time of making applie- 
tion to obtain a license, file with the City Clark a bond to the City 
of Alameda in the penal sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars, 
with two or more sureties, who shall each be resident of the Cit Vv 
of Alameda, and shall each qualify in double the amount of the 
penal sum of the bond; said bond to be approved by the said 
City Council, and conditioned that the said applicant, or appli- 
cants shall conduct the business for which the license is sought 


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in a quiet, orderly and reputable manner, and will not permit 
any breach of peace, or disturbance of the public order or deco- 
rum, by any tumultuous, riotous, or disorderly conduct upon the 
premises, and shall not sell, give, or furnish any intoxicating 
liquor, spiritous, malt, or fermented lhquor, or wine, or any 
admixture thereof, to any person in a state of intoxication, or to 
any person under the age of eighteen years, and that said appli- 
eant or applicants shall obey and abide by all laws and ordin- 
ances now in force, and which may hereafter be enacted, regu- 
lating the time of closing saloons and the business of selling 
spirituous, malt, or fermented lquors or wines. or any admixture 
thereof. 


Section 475. Issuance and Revocation of License Granted. 
Upon consideration of said application and any objections which 
may be filed, the said Council may grant or refuse the permission 
applied for, which permission, if granted, shall remain in force 
not more than one year and be only for the person. firm, or cor- 
poration and place named therein. 

Upon sufficient cause being shown or proof furnished to the 
said City Council that any person, firm, or corporation holding a 
license has violated any ordinance of the city relating to the 
sale of liquors, the said Council shall, upon notice being given 
to the person, firm, or corporation so licensed, revoke such per- 
mission, cancel the license, and declare the bond forfeited. 


Section 476: Payment of License Fees. All Licenses issued 
hereunder shall be paid for quarterly in advance on the first days 
of July, October, January and April, of each and every year, 1n 
lawful money of the United States, and at the office of the Chit 
of Police of the City of Alameda, who is hereby authorized, em- 
powered, and required to collect all lense taxes provided for 
by this article; and he shall issue the hcense herein provided for 
only to such person, firm, or corporation as shall have complied 
with the preliminary provisions herein required. (As amended 
byiOrd; No? 2)°N:'S.) 


Section 477: Limiting Distance of Saloon From School. No 
person, firm, or corporation shall have issued to him or them 
the license required by this article when it appears that the front 
entrance of the place where the applicant proposes to carry on 


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businsss is within a distance of one hundred feet from the front 
entrance of any lot or premises used for public school purposes. 


Section 478: Necessity to Confine Business to That Licensed. 
Allowing Sale of Tobacco. No goods, wares, or merchandise of 
any kind, save and except those provided in this article, shall — 
be sold or offered for sale in any room or place where the busi- 
ness asked to be licensed shall be carried on, or in any room or 
place connected therewith by any door, window, passageway, 
or opening of any kind whatever. Licenses issued hereunder 
shall be called liquor licenses, and shall, however, authorize the 
sale of tobacco in all its forms. 


Section 479: License Applies to One Place Only. The license 
herein specified shall entitle the owner thereof to carry on the 
business licensed at only one place. 


Section 480: Causes for Revocation of License. The keeping of 
a disorderly or disreputable house or place, or the selling ov 
giving of any spirtuous, malt, or fermented liquor, or wine, or 
any admixture thereof, to any intoxicated person, or to any 
minor under the age of 18 years, or the violating of any of the 
provisions of this ordinance by any person, firm. or corporation 
hereby licensed, shall be deemed a misdeameanor, and on con- 
viction thereof said conviction shall work a revocation and for- 
feiture of the license, as well as forfeiture of the bond given 
under the said provisions. The City Council may at any time, 
for such cause and upon such investigation as they or a majority 
of them deem sufficient, revoke any license granted under this 
ordinance, and it is specially ordained and declared that all sueh 
licenses, though granted for a nominal term, are held at the 
pleasure of the said City Couneil. 


Section 481: Amount of License Fee—Exception as to Drug- 
gists and Wholesalers—Prescription Usuable Only Once. The 
license tax under this ordinance shall be as follows: 

For every person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business 
of selling or giving away, or in any manner furnishing, in any 
saloon, bar, stand, or other place of business, or in any public 
place in the City of Alameda, and for every person, firm, or 
corporation who sells, or offers to sell or keeps for the purpose of 
sale, in the City of Alameda, any spirituous, malt, or fermented 


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liquors or wines, or any admixture thereof, at the rate of five 
hundred dollars, payable semi-annually in advance. Provided, 
that druggists and apothecaries shall not be required to obtain 
licenses under the provisions of this ordinance for furnishing 
liquors upon the written prescription of a regularly licensed 
and registered physician, such liquor in no ease to be used cr 
drank upon the premises, nor for supplying alcohol or prepara- 
tions containing the same for scientific, mechanical, medical cr 
medicinal purposes. Provided, further, that no spirituous, vinous, 
or malt liquors shall be sold or furnished more than once on an 
one prescription of such physician, and that no physician shall 
prescribe any intoxicating hquor as a beverage to a person of 
known intemperate habits. 


Provided, further, that no such license shall be required far 
the purpose of selling hquors to retail dealers in said city who 
have paid the heense tax herein specified; but said license must 
be obtained by every person, firm, or corporation who or which 
sells spirituous, malt, or fermented liquors or wines, from place 
to place, or from wagons in said city, to persons other than said 
dealers. 


Section 482: Misdeameanor. Any person who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdeameanor. 


Article 2—MANNER OF CONDUCTING THE SALE OF IN- 
TOXICATING LIQUORS. 


Section 483: Manner in Which Liquors to be Sold—Prohibi- 
tion of Sales to Adjoining Places—Ladies or Family Entrances. 
No person shall, at any saloon in said City, sell, give away. barter. 
buy, or receive any spirituous, malt or fermented liquor or wine, 
or any admixture thereof, between the hours of Twelve o’clock 
Midnight and Five o’clock in the morning of the following day. 
No person engaged in the vending or disposing of spirituous, malt 
or fermented liquors or wines in any barroom or saloon shall sell 
or deliver for sale or use, any liquor in any back-room, side-room. 
upper-room or other apartment in or contiguous to such bar-room 
or saloon, or in any building adjoining the same, unless said 
back-room, side-room, upper-room or other apartment be so 


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constructed and maintained that no ingress thereto or egre's 
therefrom can or may be had except through the main room of 
said bar-room or saloon; and no such person shall have or main- 
tain any private or separate entrance for any particular class 
of customers or any words or signs upon any entrance signifiyirg 
that such entrance is for ladies or families, or for any particular 
class of persons, or as a private entrance to such bar-room o« 
saloon, or to any other apartment used in connection therewith : 
Provided, that nothing contained in this section shall prohibit 
the serving of such liquors to guests within any hotel or restau- 
rant having a valid license to sell the same. 


Section 484: Barring Minors From Saloons and Billiard 
Rooms. It shall be unlawful for the proprietor, manager, bar- 
keeper, clerk or other person in charge of any saloon, barroom, 
or place where intoxicating liquors are sold or oftered for sale, 
or of any place where billiards, pool or cards are played for 
money or compensation to the person in charge of said place, to 
permit any person under the age of eighteen years to visit any 
such place or to loiter or be or remain in or about such place, 
and it shall be unlawful for any such person under the age ¢f 
eighteen years to visit any such place or loiter or be or remain 
therein. 


Section 485: Prescribing Closing Time for Such Places. I. 
shall be the duty of every proprietor or keeper of any room or 
place where billiards, pool or ecards are played for money or com- 
pensation to the person in charge of such room or place or where 
goods or merchandise are sold as part of the consideration fox 
the use of tables or other accommodation at such room or place, 
to cause all persons other than himself, his family and regularly 
employed assistants, to depart from such room or place and 10 
close the same and all rooms used in connection therewith for 
any of said purposes at Twelve o’clock midnight of each day, and 
to keep the same closed until Five o’clock in the morning, and 
no person other than those herein excepted shall be admitted to 
any such room or place during the time the same is so closed, 
provided that police officers in the discharge of their duties shall 
have access to such rooms or places at all hours. 


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Section 486: Selling Liquor to Minor Under 18—Or Allow- 
ing to Loiter. No person shall in the City of Alameda sell 
or give any intoxicating liquor to any person intoxicated, or give. 
or deliver or cause to be delivered, any intoxicating liquor, in 
any quantity whatever, to any minor child, male or female, under 
the age of eighteen years; provided that it shall be a sufficient 
defense to any prosecution under this section if proven that such 
intoxicating liquor was given or delivered to such minor child 
upon the prescription of a regularly leensed physician, or by 
the father, mother or guardian of such minor child, and was not 
so given or delivered in any saloon, barroom, drinking place, 
or place where intoxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale, 
nor in any public street, or in any public place; and no person 
being the proprietor, or manager or bar-keeper, of any saloon, 
barroom, drinking place, or place where  intoxicat- 
ing liquors ° are sold, or offered for sale, — shall 
permit any minor child under the age of  eign- 
teen vears to visit said saloon, barroom, or drinking place, 
or place where intoxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale, 
for the purpose of gambling, playing cards, billiards, pool, or 
any game of chance, or to be employed in, or to loiter or to re- 
main in or about said saloon, barroom, drinking place, or place 
where intoxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale, or to play 
billiards, pool or cards therein, or to take or carry away any 
intoxicating liquors therefrom in any quantity whatsoever. 

No minor under the age of eighteen years shall in the City of 
Alameda drink any intoxicating liquors in any quantity what- 
ever in any saloon, barroom, drinking place, or place where in- 
toxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale, or shall take or 
carry away any intoxicating liquor therefrom in any quantity 
whatever, or shall loiter or remain in or about any saloon, bar- 
room, drinking place or place where intoxicating liquors are sold, 
or offered for sale, or play billiards, pool or ecards in any such 
place. 


Section 487: False Representation as to Age of Minor. No 
minor under the age of eighteen years shall falsely represent 
himself to be over the age of eighteen years to any proprietor, 
or manager, or barkeeper of any saloon, barroom, drinking place, 
or place where intoxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale, 


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for the purpose of procuring intoxicating liquor for himself or 
for another, or for the purpose of being permitted to loiter or 
remain in or about any saloon, barroom, drinking place. or place 
where intoxicating liquors are sold, or for the purpose of bein. 
permitted to take or carry away intoxicating liquors therefrom. 


Section 488: Misdeameanor. Any person who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdeameanor. 


CHAPTER VIII 


LICENSES FOR REGULATION AND REVENUE. 
Article—GRATUITOUS LICENSES. 


Section 489: Gratuitous Licenses—To Whom Issued. Gratit- 
ous licenses shall be issued by the Chief of Police when ordered by 
the Council in the same manner as other licenses are issued by 
him, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth: 


First—To producers, to sell such products as are raised by 
them. 


Second—To manufacturers, to sell goods which are manufac- 
tured by them. 

Third—To persons who, by the infirmities of age, loss of limb, 
or other disabling causes, are incapaciated from earning a livli- 
hood by physical labor, to sell goods at retail. 

Fourth—-To any person, who upon proper showing, is found 
by the Council to merit exemption from the payment of a license 
tax. 


Section 490: Applications For—How Made. All applications 
for a gratituous license shall be made in writing to the Chief of 
Police, and must state the facts relied upon by the applicant, 
and state where applicant has resided for the preceding six 
months, and be signed by him. 

Each application for a gratuitous license shall be presented to 
the Council by the Chief of Police with his recommendation en- 
dorsed thereon. 


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Section 491: Revocable and Not Assignable. Gratuitous licen- 
ses shall be revokable at any time by the Council and shall not 
be assignable. 


Article 2—LICENSES FOR VARIOUS TRADES, CALLINGS, 
PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS. 


Section 492: Necessity to Procure a License—New Violation 
Each Day. It shall be unlawful for any person, whether as prin- 
cipal or agent, co-partner, clerk or employe either for himself or 
any other person, or for any body corporate, or otherwise, or as 
officer of any corporation, to commence or carry on in the City of 
Alameda, any trade, calling, profession or occupation, in this 
article specified, or to keep, employ, or use any article or thing 
in said city for which a license tax is hereinafter imposed, with- 
out first having procured a license from said city so to do, and 
each and every day or fractional part of a day that said trade, 
calling, profession or occupation in this ordinance specified is con- 
ducted or carried on without such license, shall constitute a vio- 
lation of this article. 


Section 493: Auditor to Furnish Blanks, Tags, Eitc.—Keep 
Account of License Business. The Auditor shall prepare and 
have printed blank licenses of all classes and denominations, dog- 
tags, vehicle and basket numbers for terms to correspond with 
the provisions of this or any other ordinance. He shall have all 
licenses. and tags numbered, and after having signed the licenses 
shall from time to time deliver them to the Chief of Police in 
such quantities as may be required, taking his receipt therefor 
and charging him therewith, giving in the entry the numbers, 
classes and amounts therefor. He must keep in his office a ledger 
in which he shall keep the said Chief’s account of all licenses de- 
livered to him, sold or returned unsold to him. He shall at the 
close of each month demand and receive from the Chief of Police 
all such licenses, blanks, dog-tags, vehicle or basket numbers. 
or plates not issued and paid for, and immediately credit him 
therewith. He shall at the same time credit the said Chief of 
Police with all licenses, blanks, dog-tags, vehicle or basket num- 
bers or plates, issued and paid for during the month, specifying 
their numbers, classes and values, and cancel the account in such 
a manner as to show a monthly settlement with said Chief of 


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Police. He shall on or before the 5th day of each month require 
and receive from the Chief of Police a sworn monthly report 
showing the number and class of such license, the number of 
dog-tags, vehicle and basket numbers or plates on hand, and 
received during the month, the total number of each class issued 
during the month next preceding, and the amount paid over to 
the City Treasurer. The report if found correct he shall imme- 
diately file with the City Council. ; 


Section 494: Chief of Police to Collect License Taxes. The 
Chief of Police shall collect all license taxes, shall issue all leen- 
ses, shall keep a record of all licenses, dog-tags and vehicle 
numbers sold, and shall furnish the report mentioned in the pre- 
ceding section. 


Section 495: License Taxes Payable in Advance—Pro-rating 
of Tax. Licenses issued pursuant to this article shall be paid for 
in advance. They shall be dated on the day of issuance by the 
Chief of Police, and shall expire on the last day of the term for 
which the same are issued. If any person shall apply for aw 
annual license after the beginning of the then current license 
term shall be required to pay the whole year’s license tax if the 
license is issued in the first quarter of the license year, and shal! 
pay three-fourths of the tax if the license is issued in the second 
quarter of the license year, and pay one-half of the tax if the 
license is issued in the third quarter of the license year, and pay 
one-fourth of the tax if the license is issued in the fourth quarter 
of the license year. 7 

The license term shall be for one year beginning April first, and 
all license except as otherwise provided for shall be due and 
paid for immediately upon engaging in the business and becom- 
ing subject to the license tax and thereafter shall be due and 
paid for in advance on the first day of April of each year when 
the same are annual licenses, and otherwise upon expiration of 
license. 


‘Section 496: Penalty For Failure to Promptly Obtain License. 
If any person then doing business in said city shall fail to take 
out and pay for a license as in this Article provided, for thirty 
(30) days after the time provided herein for taking out the same, 
he shall pay for such license ten (10) per cent more than the 
amount herein otherwise provided, and no license shall be is- 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 141 
sued to him until said amount is paid. This provision shall not 
exempt such person from any punishment provided by this 
ordinance for a violation thereof. 


Section 497: Not Assignable Without Permission. No licens: 
granted or issued under any of the provisions of this Article shal 
be in any manner assignable or transferable, or authorize any 
person other than is therein mentioned or named to do business 
without permission from the Chief of Police, endorsed thereon 
by him, who shall immediately record such change or transfer in 
the proper place upon the record of the license. 


Section 498: To Display License. Every person having a 
license under the provisions of this ordinance shall conspicuously 
exhibit the same at all times while in force at his place of busi- 
ness and produce the same when applying for a renewal or wher. 
requested so to do by the Chief of Police or any police officer: 
provided that peddlers and others who have no fixed place of 
business in said City must carry and exhibit a license when so 
requested. All wagons or vehicles licensed hereunder shall be 
designated by a license number which ghall be conspicuously 
shown on both sides thereof. 


Section 499: Punishment Not in Lieu of the Tax. Conviction 
and punishment of any person for transacting any business with- 
out a license shall not excuse or exempt such person from the 
payment of any license due or unpaid at the time of such con- 
viction. 


Section 500: Separate Licenses For Each Place of Business. 
A license must be procured from the Chief of Police immediately 
before the commencement of any business, trade or profession, 
or employment, or calling, required by this ordinance to be 
licensed, and, unless otherwise provided herein, a separate license 
must be obtained for each branch establishment or separate place 
of business, which authorizes the party obtaining it to carry on. 
pursue, or conduct only that business, trade, profession or em- 
ployment described in such license and only at the location or 
place of business which is indicated therein. 


Section 501: Where Several Occupations or Businesses Com- 
bined. Except as hereinafter otherwise provided, where more 
than one occupation or business of those upon which a license tax 


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is hereinafter imposed is carried on or conducted by one person, 
firm or corporation, at any one location, the license tax for such 
combined business or occupation shall be the tax hereinafter 
imposed on that one of said occupations or businesses which is 
most heavily taxed hereunder. 


Section 502: Rates. The rates for licenses and the subjects 
licensed shall be as established hereinafter. 


Section 503: Street or Steam Railroad Car Advertisers. For 
every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of 
street or steam railroad car advertising, the license tax shall be 
$100 per year. 


Section 504: Fortune Tellers, Phrenologists, Etc. For every 
person, firm or corporation who carries on, practices, or professes 
to practice the business or art of astrology, palmistry, phrenology, 
life-reading, fortune-telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clair- 
audience, crystal-gazing, hypnotism, mediumship, prophecy, au- 
gury, divination, magic or necromancy, and who demands or re- 
ceives a fee for the exercise or exhibition of his art or practice 
therein, or who gives an exhibition thereof at any place where 
an admission fee is charged, the license tax shall be $100 per year. 


Section 505: Auctioneers—Conductors of Judicial Sales Ex- 
cepted. For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the 
business of auctioneer or who sells any goods, wares or merchan 
dise, or real estate, or property, at public auction on commission 
or otherwise, the license tax shall be $50 per year. 

The provisions of this section shall not apply to sales made 
under judgment or order of any court, and the license provided 
for in this section shall not be assignable or transferable. 


Section 506: Proprietors of Public Gardens, Parks or Recrea- 
tion Grounds. For every person, firm or corporation who owns or 
keeps any public garden, park, or recreation ground where an 
admission fee is charged to such garden, park, or ground the 
license tax shall be twenty-five dollars per year; and for every 
person, firm or corporation who keeps or manages a baseball 
park or ground to which an admission fee is charged the license 
tax shall be twenty-five dollars. 


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Section 507: Public Bath House Keepers. For every person, 
firm or corporation conducting a public bath house for tub, steam 
or vapor baths or swimming for hire, the license tax shall be $19 
per year. (As amended by Ord. No. 2, N. 8S.) 


Section 508: Proprietors of Billiard, Pool and ‘Bagatelle 
Tables. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, man- 
aging or carrying on the business of keeping or conducting bil- 
hard, bagatelle or pool tables, the license tax shall be $6 per table, 
per year. 

The tax imposed by this section shall not be subject to the 
provisions of Section 501 of this Ordinance. 


Section 509: Keepers of Bowling Alleys and Box Ball Courts. 
For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business ot 
keeping or conducting bowling alleys, or box-ball courts, for 
each alley, bed or court, the license tax shall be $8 per year. 


Section 510: Brewers and Beer Bottlers. For every person, 
firm or corporation engaged in the business of beer bottling or 
having an agency for any beer bottling establishment and for 
every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of 
keeping or conducting breweries or selling keg beer wholesale, 
the license tax shall be $50 per year. 


Section 511: Bottlers of Non-Intoxicants. For every person 
firm or corporation engaged in the business of bottling non-intox- 
icants or having an agency therefor, the license shall be $10 per 
year. 


Section 512: Carpet Cleaners and Vacuum Cleaners. For 
every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of car- 
pet cleaning or engaged in the business of operating a vehicle 
vacuum cleaning machine, the license tax shall be $10 per year. 
(As amended by Ord. No. 2, N. 8.) 


Section 513: Circus and Side Show Proprietors. For every 
person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of conducting 
a menagerie or circus, the license tax shall be $25 per day where 
the seating capacity is less than $2000 and $50 per day where 
the seating capacity is over 2000; and for every person, firm or 
corporation engaged in the conduct of a side-show or side exhi- 
bition to a circus or menagerie, the lecense tax shall be $5 per day 
for each said side-show or each said side exhibition. 


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Section 514: Dyeing and Cleaning Works. For every person, 
firm or corporation who owns or keeps, solicits or delivers for 
any dyeing or cleaning establishment or carries on the business 
of dyeing, the license tax shall be $10 per year. 


Section 515: Proprietor of Dancing Schools. For every per- 
son, firm or corporation engaged in the business of conducting 
a dancing academy, class or school, the license tax shall be $10 per 
year. 


Section 516: Handbill and Sample Distributors. lor every 
person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of distrib- 
uting handbills, dodgers, cards or samples, the license tax shall 
be $25 per year. 


Section 517: Electric Wirers and Fixture Installers. For 
every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business ot 
electric wiring, or selling electric supphes or installing gas or 
electric fixtures, the license tax shall be $25 per year. Provided, 
however, that every person, firm or corporation before obtaining 
a license under this section shall execute a bond to the City of 
Alameda in the sum of $250 conditioned that he, they or it will 
comply with all of the ordinances relative to the furnishing or 
installing of gas or electric fixtures or supplies. 


Section 518: Garage Keepers. [For every person, firm or cor- 
poration engaged in the business of conducting an automobile 
garage where automobiles are stored, cleaned or repaired for 
hire, the license tax shall be $36 per year. 


Section 519: Furnishers of Gas Regulators. For every person, 
firm or corporation.engaged in the business of providing gas-reg- 
ulators, the license tax shall be $10 per year. 

Section 520: Keepers of Employment Offices. For every per- 
son, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping an 
employment or intelligence office the license tax shall be $20 per 
year. 

Section 521: Junk Dealers. For every person, firm or corpora- 
tion engaged in the business of dealing in junk, the license tax. 
shall be $15 per year. 

Section 522: Livery or Boarding Stable Keepers. For every 
person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping. 


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maintaining or conducting a livery or boarding stable for hire, 
the license tax shall be $25 per year. 


Section 523: Keepers of Merry-Go-Rounds, Etc. For every 
person, firm or corporation conducting, maintaining or carrying 
on the business of merry-go-round or a ferris or other similar 
wheel, or recreation swing, the license tax shall be $1 per day. 


Section 524: Money Loaners. lor every person, firm or cov- 
poration engaged in the business of loaning money on real estate 
or personal property as security, the license tax shall be $29 
per year. 


Section 525: Keepers of Museums. For every person, firm or 
corporation engaged in the business of maintaining or conducting 
any museum, or panorama where an admission fee is charged. 
the license tax shall be $5.00 per day. 


Section 526: Patent Medicine Venders. For every person, fir:a 
or corporation engaged in the business of vending patent medi- 
cines other than from a fixed place of business, the license tax 
shall be $10 per day. 


Section 527: Pawnbrokers. For every person, firm or cor- 
poration engaged in the business of pawnbroking, the lceensc 
tax shall be $50 per year. 


Section 528: Peddlers and Street Venders. For every persor. 
who peddles or from place to ploce or in the streets offers to or 
does sell, barter or exchange anything then in his actual posses- 
sion in said city, other than intoxicating or malt hquors, except 
ing newspapers, periodicals, publications, ice, milk, and except 
ing those who sell only to traders and merchants for re-sale, the 
license tax shall be $50 per year; provided that the leense tax 
imposed by this section shall not apply to the occupations covered 
by Section 537 of this article. (As amended by Ord. No. 2.N. 8.) 


Section 529: Theaters, Moving Picture Shows and the Like. 
For every person, firm or corporation maintaining or conducting 
a theater, moving picture show, phonograph or kinetoscope pic- 
ture parlor or arcade, the license tax shall be ¢25 per year where 
the price of admission or cost of entertainment is five cents or 
less, and shall be $50 per year where the price of admission or 
eost of entertainment is ten cents or more. 


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Section 530: Keepers of Public Scales. For every person, 
firm or corporation conducting a public scales for hire the license 
tax shall be $10 per year. 


Section 531: Keepers of Hospitals and Sanitoriums. For 
every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business ot 
conducting a hospital, sanitorium or lying-in hospital the license 
tax shall be as follows: 

Where not more than six bedrooms are used by patients, $15 
per year; where not more than six bedrooms and not more than 
ten bedrooms are used by patients, $25 per year; where more 
than ten bedrooms and not more than fifteen bedrooms are used 
by patients, $40 per year; where more than fifteen bedrooms are 
used by patients, $75 per year. 


- Section 5382: Shooting Gallery Proprietors. For every person, 
firm or corporation who owns or conducts or keeps any shooting 
gallery for each shooting gallery the license tax shall be $25 
per year; provided that no license shall be granted under this 
section until application therefor shall be made to the Council, 
which application shall set forth the particular place, including 
the street, block and lot number where such shooting gallery 
is to be conducted, and that the applicant is to conduct and en- 
gage personally in business as proprietor and manager thereof 
at the place described in this petition. Upon receiving such ap- 
plication the Council may in its discretion grant or deny the said 
petition. 


Section 533: Skating Rink Proprietors. For every person, 
firm or corporation engaged in the business of keeping or con- 
ducting or maintaining a skating rink the license tax shall be 
$90 per year. 


Section 534: Solicitors. For every solicitor or order agent 
who shall solicit or take orders for the sale, exchange, delivery 
or barter in said city of any goods, wares or merchandise, other 
than malt or intoxicating liquors, not then in his actual posses- 
sion as.a peddler, excepting newspapers, periodicals, publications, 
ice or milk, the license tax shall be $150 per year; provided that 
this section shall not apply to wholesale agents who solicit or- 
ders from dealers only. 


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Section 535: Book Agents. For every person who shall solicit 
or take orders for the purchase, sale, exchange, barter or deliv- 
ery in said city of books not then in his actual possession, the 
license tax shall be $25 per year. 


Section 536: Proprietors of Sparring or Boxing Shows. For 
each exhibition or entertainment of sparring or boxing where 
an admission fee is charged the license tax shall be $50. The 
payment of said tax shall not be sufficient to authorize any such 
exhibition or entertainment without a resolution of the Council 
permitting the same under such restrictions as it may prescribe. 


Section 537: Peanut Venders, Etc. Fiom Hand-Carts, Etc. 
For every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of 
selling tamales, sandwiches, ice cream, peanuts, beans, candy, or 
edibles of any description, excepting fruit or vegetables, from 
wagons, hand-carts, stands, trays or baskets, upon the public 
streets the license tax shall be $2.50 per quarter-year for each 
such wagon, hand-cart, stand, tray or basket, exclusive of the 
wagon license tax. 


Section 538: Towell Furnishers. For every person, firm, or 
corporation engaged in the business of supplying towels for 
stores, offices and public institutions at regular intervals. or 
stated periods of time, the license tax shall be $10 per year. 


Section 539: Undertakers or Embalmers. For every person, 
firm or corporation engaged in the business of undertaking, or 
conducting funeral parlors or funerals, or the embalming of 
human bodies, the license tax shall be $25 per year. 


Section 540: Keepers of Veterinary Hospitals. For every per- 
son, firm or corporation engaged in the business of conducting 
a veterinary hospital the leense tax shall be $10 per year. 


Section 541: Proprietors of Transportation Vehicles. For 
every person, firm or corporation who owns, keeps or uses any 
wagon or vehicle hereinafter described, the license tax shall be 
as follows: 

Subdivision A. For every hack, coach, carriage, omnibus or 
automobile used for the carrying of passengers for hire, or 
which is let for hire with driver, $5.00 per year for each such 
vehicle. 


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Subdivision B. For every wagon or cart drawn by two or 
more animals and used for the hauling of rock, dirt, manure, 
sand, loam, gravel, lumber, coal, hay, brick, cement, ice or oil 
$6.00 per year for each such vehicle; for every such wagon or 
cart drawn by one animal $3.00 per year. | 

Subdivision C. For every garbage, vegetable garden or ped- 
dlers’ wagon or cart, $8.00 per year when drawn by two or 
more animals, and $5.00 per year when drawn by one animal. 

Subdivision D. For every express wagon, $10.00 per year 
when drawn by two or more animals, and $7.50 per year when 
drawn by one animal. 

Subdivision E. For every vehicle or wagon used for the pur- 
pose of delivering goods, wares or merchandise, sold by the 
owner of such vehicle, $5.00 per year when driven by motor” 
power and $2.50 when drawn by animals. For every motor- 
cycle used for delivering goods, wares and merchandise, $5.06 
per year. 

Subdivision F. For every vehicle used for the delivery of 
milk $5.00 per year when drawn by one animal and $8.00 per 
year when drawn by two or more animals. 

Subdivision G. For every vehicle used for the purpose of 
vacuum cleaning $10.00 per year. 

Subdivision H. For every vehicle used for ‘ne, delivery of 
laundry $5.00 per year when drawn by one animal, $8.00 per 
year when drawn by two or more animals, and $10.00 per year 
when drawn by motor power. 

Subdivision I. For every express vehicle driven by motor 
power $15 per year. 

The provisions of section 501 of this ordinance shall not apply 
to the leense taxes imposed by this section. (As amended by 
Ord. No. 2, N: 8.) 


Section 542: Warehousemen. For every person, firm or corpor- 
ation who owns or conducts any warehouse used for the storage 
of any merchandise or goods, the license tax shall be $10 per 
year. 


Section 543: Wharfingers. For every person, firm or corpora- 
tion engaged in the business of conducting a wharf or of collect- 
ing wharfage, or dockage, at any wharf, the license tax shall 
be $10 per year. 


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Section 543a: Water Service Companies. For every person, 
firm or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing water 
to the general public, the license tax shall be $300 per year. (As 
amended by Ord. No 2, N. 8S.) 


Section 544: Duty to Furnish Sworn Statement when Tax 
Dependent on Amount of Business. In all cases where the amount 
of license to be paid by any person, firm or corporation, is based 
upon the amount of receipts or sales effected, or business trans- 
acted, or number of persons employed, or other special cireum- 
Stances, such person, firm or corporation shall render, if de- 
manded, a sworn statement in writing to the Chief of Police 
made before some officer authorized to administer oaths, of the 
total amount of receipts, sales made, or business transacted, or 
number of persons employed by said person, firm or corporation, 
respectively, during the three months next preceding the ex- 
piration of the last license, or of such other fact, which state- 
ment shall determine the amount for which such license shall 
be issued or renewed. 


Section 545: Police Officers as Assistant Inspectors. All police 
officers are hereby appointed assistant inspectors of licenses and 
in addition to their several duties as police officers, are hereby 
required to examine all places of business and persons on their 
respective beats liable to pay license, and to see that such licenses 
are taken out, and that no other business than the one described 
in the license is carried on or transacted. Said assistant in- 
spectors of license shall also report to the Chief of Police the 
names of all such doing business without a license immediately 
upon the fact coming to their knowledge. 


Section 546: Persons Engaged in Interstate Commerce 
Exempted. Where, by reason of the laws governing interstate 
commerce, or other law, any exemption from the payment of 2 
license tax to the City of Alameda shall exist, or any business, 
person or thing shall not be subject to any license tax imposed 
by the City of Alameda, no license tax shall be required or 
collected under this article. 


Section 547: Misdeameanor. Any person who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdeameanor. 


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Article 3—LICENSES FOR MAINTAINING BILL BOARDS, 
FENCES AND OTHER STRUCTURES USED FOR AD- 
VERTISING. , 


Section 548: Annual License for Business of Bill Board Ad- 
vertisers. Kor every person, firm or corporation engaged in the 
business of advertising by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or 
painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, billboards, adver- 
tising sign boards, buildings or other structures used in whole 
or in part for advertising purposes, excepting the business of 
street or steam railroad car advertising, an annual license tax 
is hereby established and levied, the amount of which shall be 
computed as follows: The amount of said heense tax shall be 
for each square foot of surface used at the time of issuing the 
license the sum of two cents per annum, providing, however, 
that the minimum license tax so to be paid shall be $240 per year. 


Section 549: Affidavit to be Filed Before Issuance of License. 
It shall be the duty of each person, firm or corporation required 
to pay a license tax under the provisions of this article to file 
with the Chief of Police, before the issuance of such leense, 
an affidavit setting forth the locations and area in square feet of 
surface used by him in said business at the time of applying for 
the license and also during the last quarter of the year previous. 


Section 550: When Tax is Payable. The license tax herein 
established shall be due and payable in.advance on the first day 
of April of each year, or at such time as any person, firm or cor- 
poration subject to it shall engage in such business in the City oi 
Alameda. Provided, however, that lcenses issued at the time 
when this ordinance goes into effect shall not be affected by this 
Article until they have expired. 


Section 551: Necessity to Procure License. It shall be un- 
lawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in or carry 
on, in the City of Alameda, any business described in and in- 
cluded in Section 548 of this ordinance without first procuring 
from said City of Alameda a license so to do. 


Section 552: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor. | 


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CHAPTER IX 


BUILDING RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
Articles I—GENERAL BUILDING REGULATIONS. 


Section 553: Applicability of Regulations. This chapter shall 
apply to all buildings hereafter to be erected, constructed, 
altered, repaired, raised, added to or built upon, or demolished 
within the corporate limits of the City of Alameda. 


Section 554: Fire Limit Districts—Their Extent. Four dis- 
tricts are hereby located, in the City of Alameda, to be known 
as Fire Limits Number 1, Fire Limits Number 2 and Fire Limits 
Number 3 and Fire Limits Number 4, which districts are de- 
scribed as follows: 

Fire Limits Number 1. Commencing at the point of inter- 
section of the eastern line of Park Street and the northern line of 
Encinal Avenue, and running thence easterly along said line of 
Kneinal Avenue one hundred and fifty (150) feet; 
running thence northerly parallel with Park Street to the 
southern line of Lincoln Avenue, running thence westerly along 
said line of Lincoln Avenue to a point distant thereon one hun- 
dred and fifty (150) feet westerly from the western line of Park 
Street; running thence southerly parallel with Park Street to 
the northern line of Encinal Avenue; and thence easterly thereon 
to the point of beginning. 

Fire Limits Number 2. Commencing at the southwestern 
corner of Oak street and Encinal Avenue running thence north- 
erly along the western line of Oak Street to the northern line of 
Eagle Avenue running thence easterly along the said line of 
Eagle Avenue to the eastern line of Everett Street; running 
thence southerly along said line of Everett Street to the northern 
line of Central Avenue; running thence easterly along said line of 
Central Avenue to the eastern line of Regent Street, projected 
northerly; running thence southerly along said line of Regent 
Street to the southern line of Encinal Avenue and running thence 
westerly along said line of Encinal Avenue to the point of begin- 
ning. 

Fire Limits Number 3. That portion of the City of Alameda 
bounded on the south by the northern line of Central Avenue ; 


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on the north by the northern line of Pacific Avenue; on the east 
by a line parallel with and distant easterly two hundred (200) 
teet from the eastern line of Webster Street and on the west 
by a line parallel with and distant westerly two hundred (200) 
feet from the western line of Webster Street. 

Fire Limits Number 4. Commencing at a point on the south- 
ern line of Lincoln Avenue distant thereon one hundred ( 100° 
feet easterly from the eastern line of Sherman Street and run- 
ning thence southerly and parallel with said eastern line of 
Sherman Street one hundred (100) feet; running thence at right 
angles westerly and parallel with the southern line of Lincoln 
Avenue to a point one hundred (100) feet right angle measure- 
ment westerly from the western line of Bay Street ;running 
thence at right angles northerly and parallel with said western 
line of Bay Street to a point one hundred (100) feet right angle 
measurement northerly from the northern line of Lincoln Ave- 
nue; running thence easterly and parallel with said northern 
line of Lincoln Avenue to a point one hundred (100) feet right 
angle measurement easterly from the eastern line of Sherman 
Street and running thence in a right line to the point of com- 
mencement. 


Section 555: Applicability to Fire Limits No. 3 and 4, All 
the provisions of this ordinance which apply to Fire Limits Ne. 
Three are hereby made applicable to Fire Limits No. Four and 
said Fire Limits No. Four shall be subject to and controlled %.” 
each and all of said provisions. ta 


Section 556: Necessity for Obtaining Permit. No person 
firm or corporation as owner or contractor shall erect a building 
or structure of any kind, the cost of which exceeds fifty (#50) 
dollars, or in event that the cost thereof shall exceed fifty ($50) 
dollars,, add to, enlarge, extend, alter or repair (restoration of 
paint, plaster and shingles excepted) any building or structure 
already erected within the City of Alameda, or shall construct 
any sidewalk over an excavation without first obtaining a per- 


mit from the Building Inspector therefor. 


Section 557: Application for Permit—Contents. The applica- 
tion for such permit shall state the exact site where the work 1s 
to be done and the street number which for new buildings shall 
be obtained from the City Numberer and certified by him ard 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 153 


such certificate shall accompany such application. Such appli- 
cation shall also state the material, dimensions and cost of the 
proposed building, structure or improvements and the nature 
thereof, and shall contain an estimate of time to be occupied in 
making improvement or construction of building. 


Section 558: Where Cost Exceeds Amount Specified in Ap- 
plication. Whenever a building for which a permit has been 
obtained has been erected at a cost in excess of the amount spe- 
cified in the apphecation therefor, the owner of said building 
shall file, within five days after cost thereof shall be determined, 
with the Building Inspector a statement of the amount of the 
cost of the said building in excess of the amount specified in 
application for permit and pay the additional fee computed on 
the cost of the entire building. 


Section 559: Necessity to File Certain Statements and Spe- 
cifications Before Commencing Construction. Where permits are 
required to be obtained as provided herein and before commenc- 
ing the erection, construction, alteration, repair or addition to 
any building, or part of any building, structure, part of any 
structure, wall or any platform, staging or flooring to be used 
mainly for standing or seating purposes, and before the construe. 
tion alteration or repair of any building, structure or premises 
is commenced, the owner of proposed: improvement or his lesse:: 
or the agent of either or the architect employed in connection 
with the proposed erection, alteration or improvement, shall file 
with the Building Inspector a detailed statement of the specifi- 
cations on appropriate blanks to be furnished to applicants by 
the said Inspector, all of which shall be accompanied with a state- 
ment in writing, giving the full name and residence (street ard 
number, if any) of the owner or owners of the land, and pro- 
posed building, structure, premises, wall, platform, staging OL 
flooring, and show the capacity either as owner, lessee, or other- 
wise in which he or they are authorized to perform said work or 
make said improvement. 

Said statement and detailed statement of specifications, shall 
be kept on file by the Building Inspector and the erection, con- 
struction, alteration or repair of such building, structure, plat- 
form, staging or flooring or any part thereof, shall not be com- 
menced or proceeded with until said statements, and specifications 


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shall have been so filed and approved by the Building Inspector, 
and the said improvements when proceeded with shall be con- 
structed in accordance with such approved detailed statement 
of specifications, and any modification in specifications made 
after approval by said Inspector shall be subject to further ap- 
proval of said Inspector. 


Section 560: Permits to be Exhibited to Authorities. All per- 
mits referred to in this Chapter must be exhibited to any rep- 
resentative of either the Police or Fire Departments, or the Build- 
ing Inspector upon demand being made therefor, and all per- 
mits must be kept on the premises where the ‘erection, altera- 
tion, or improvement of the building or structure is being con- 
ducted. 


Section 561: Inspector’s Right to Enter Buildings. The 
Building Inspector, so far as may be necessary for the perform- 
ance of his duties, shall have the right to enter any new or un- 
occupied building or any building under construction, repair, 
alteration or removal, or any building alleged to be unsafe, or a 
menace to life or hmb, upon showing his badge of office. 


Section 562: Notice of Lathing or Sheating. When a build- 
ing is ready for lathing or sheating on the inside, the Building 
Inspector shall be notified. The rough studding shall not be 
covered or in any way concealed from view until inspection has 
been made and the written approval of the Building Inspector 
obtained. And such written approval will not be granted with- 
out the production of certificates from the Inspector of electrical 
wiring and the Plumbing Inspector, showing that the wiring 
and plumbing in said building have been done according to the 
Ordinance in such cases made and provided. 


Section 563: Expiration and Renewal of Permits. Any per- 
mit which may be issued pursuant to the provisions of this 
Article, but under which no work is commenced within three 
months from the time of issuance shall expire by hmitation, and 
no work shall be done thereunder unless in the discretion of the 
Building Inspector the same be renewed, and the said Inspector 
has power to renew the same without further charge. 


Section 564: Permit For Demolition of Buildings. When any 
building within the fire limits or any building exceeding two 


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stories in height, outside the fire limits, is proposed to be demol- 
ished, the owner, architect or person proposing to demolish the 
same shall file with the Building Inspector a statement of the 
work to be done, and no such building or part of such building 
shall be demolished before such statement has been filed and a 
permit has been granted by the said Inspector therefor. 


Section 565: How Demolition Shall be Done. In demolishing 
any building, story after story shall be completely removed, and 
ho material of which such building was constructed shall be 
placed upon the floor of any such building in the course of de- 
molition, but the brick, timbers and other structural parts of 
each story shall be lowered to the ground immediately upon dis- 
placement. The owner, architect, builder or person proposing 
to demolish any building, structure. premises, wall, platform, 
staging or flooring shall give twenty-four hours notice:, to the 
Building Inspector of such intended demolition. 


Section 566: Non-Liability of the City for Damages. Every 
application shall contain an agreement to save the city and its 
officers, employes and agents harmless from all costs and dam- 
ages which may accrue in any manner whatsoever either from 
use or occupancy of the sidewalk, street or sub-sidewalk space, 
or otherwise. 


Section 567: Fees for Permits. The applicant or applicants 
for building permits shall at the time of filing application pay to 
the Building Inspector for expenses of inspection and examina- 
tion of the building or work for which permit is required, the 
sum of fifty cents (50c) if the cost of said building, structure, 
alteration, improvement or work exceeds fifty dollars ($50.00) 
and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) ; the sum of 
two dollars ($2.00), if the cost thereof exceeds five hundred 
dollars ($500.00) and not more than one thousand dollars 
($1000.00) ; the sum of four. dollars ($4.00) if the cost thereof 
exceeds one thousand dollars ($1000.00) and not more than two 
thousand dollars ($2000.00); the sum of six dollars ($6.00) if 
the cost thereof exceeds two thousand dollars ($2000.00) ; and not 
more than three thousand dollars ($3000.00) ; the sum of eight 
dollars ($8.00) if the cost thereof exceeds three thousand dol- 
lars ($3000.00) and not more than four thousand dollars ($4000) ; 
the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) if the cost thereof exceeds four 


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thousand dollars ($4000.00) and not more than five thousand 
dollars ($5,000); the sum of thirteen dollars ($13.00) if the cost 
thereof exceeds five thousand dollars ($5,000) and not more than 
ten thousand dollars ($10,000) ; the sum of seventeen dollars and 
fifty cents ($17.50) if the cost thereof exceeds ten thousand 
dollars ($10,000.00) and not more than fifteen thou- 
sand: dollars ($15,000.00); the, sum . of Amenty asco 
lars. 12($20:00 ) oc af the cost thereof exceeds fifteen 
thousand dollars ($15,000) and not more than twenty thousand 
dollars ($20,000); the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) if the 
cost thereof exceeds twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) and not 
more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); and the sum 
of two dollars ($2.00) additional for every five thousand dollars 
($5,000) or fraction thereof in excess of twenty-five thousand 
dollars ($25,000). 


Section 568: Definition of Terms. The following definitions 
of terms used in this ordinance are hereby adopted. 


ALTERATIONS. 
Sub. 1. ‘* Alterations’? means any change or addition. 
REPAIRS. 
Sub. 2. ‘‘Repairs’’ means the reconstruction or renewals of 


any existing part of a building, or if its fixtures or appurte- 
nances, by which the strength or the fire risk is not affected or 
modified. 
PARTY WALLS. 
Sub. 3. ‘‘Party Wall’’ means a wall used, or built to be used, 
in common by two or more buildings. 


PARTITION WALL. 
Sub. 4. ‘‘Partition Wall’’ means any interior wall other than 
a division wall. 
BEARING WALL. 
Sub. 5. ‘‘Bearing Wall’’ means any wall carrying the inter- 
lor load of a building. 
. EXTERIOR WALL. 


Sub. 6. ‘‘Exterior Wall’’ means every outer wall or ver- 
tical enclosure of a building other than a party wall. 
FIRE WALL. 


Sub. 7. The term ‘‘Fire Wall’’ shall apply to all walls in fire- 
proof, slow burning and ordinary buildings built for the purpose 


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of fire resistence. They may or may not be bearing walls. The 
term also applies to that portion of walls above roof surface, 


RETAINING WALL. 


Sub. 8. The term ‘‘Retaining Wall’ shall apply to all walls 
constructed for the purpose of holding back or supporting earth. 


DIVISION WALL. 


sub. 9. The term ‘‘Division Wall?’ means any wall other 
than an exterior wall or a party wall, which extends the full 
height of a building and through the roof, and such walls shall 
be in all respects as provided for party walls. 


THICKNESS OF WALL. 


Sub. 10. The term ‘“Thickness of Wall’’ means the minimum 
thickness of such wall between floors, or between floor and eceil- 


ing or roof. 
CELLAR OR BASEMENT. 


Sub. 11. The term ‘‘Cellar or Basement’? means a lower story 
one-half or more the height of which is below the level of the 
street or streets, on which it faces, or of the general level of the 
ground where it does not face upon a street. 


SLORY? 

Sub. 12. The term ‘‘Story”’ except as otherwise provided 
herein, means (for the calculation of the thickness of founda- 
tion and size of studding) the division between floors in a build- 
ing. 

TERRA COTTA. 

Sub. 13. The term ‘‘Terra Cotta.’’ when used alone shall 
apply to the hand-moulded, baked clay materials used for ar- 
chitectural decoration and construction of walls. 


HARD TERRA COTTA FIREPROOFING. 


Sub. 14. The term ‘‘Hard Terra Cotta Fire-Proofing’’ shall 
apply to all clay fireproofing material that is manufactured 
without sawdust. 


SEMI-POROUS TERRA COTTA FIREPROOFING. 


Sub. 15. The term ‘‘Semi-Porous Terra Cotta Fire-Proofing”’ 
shall apply to all clay fireproof material having fifty per cent 
of sawdust measured by volume, mixed with fifty per cent of clay. 


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DEAD LOAD. 


Sub. 16. The term ‘‘Dead Load’’ shall apply to and include 
the weight of the walls, floors, ete., of a building, including all 
permanent construction. 


LIVE LOAD. 


Sub. 17. The term ‘‘Live Load”’ shall apply to and include 
all weights in a building other than dead loads. Such loads 
shall include temporary construction, furniture and people. 


BUILDING. 


Sub. 18. The term ‘‘Building’’ shall apply to any structure 
which can be occupied for living purposes, or for business, or for 
a shelter or to support weight. 


MASONRY. 


Sub. 19. The term ‘‘Masonry’’ shall apply to brick, stone, 
concrete or reinforced concrete construction. 


DWELLINGS. 


Sub. 20. A ‘‘Dwelling’’ is a building which shall be intended 
or designated for or used as the home or residence of not more 
than two separate and distinct families or households, and in 
which not more than fifteen rooms shall be used for the accom- 
modation of lodgers or guests, and no part of which structure 
is used as a store or for any business purpose. Two or more 
such dwellings may be connected on each story and used for 
boarding or lodging purposes provided the halls and stairs of 
each house shall be left unaltered and kept open and in use as 
such. 


APARTMENT HOUSE. 


Sub. 21. An ‘‘Apartment House”’ is a building containing | 
separate apartments with self-contained conveniences for three 
or more families having a street entrance common to all. 


TENEMENT HOUSE. 


Sub. 22. ‘‘Tenement House’’ is a building similar to an apart- 
ment house, except that the tenements of which it 1s eomposed 
have no self-contained conveniences. 


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FLATS. 


Sub. 23. “‘Flats’’ is a building of two or more stories con- ° 
DS 
taining separate self-contained dwellings, each having an inde- 
pendent street entrance. 


HOTEL. 


Sub. 24. A hotel is a building or part thereof intended. de- 
signed or used for supplying food and shelter to human beings 
and having a general public dining room or cafe. or both. and 
containing more than fifteen guest rooms. 


OFFICE BUILDING. 

Sub. 25. An ‘‘Office Building’’ is a building divided into 
rooms above the first story and intended and used for office 
purposes, and no part of which shall be used for living purposes, 
excepting janitor or caretaker thereof. 


LODGING HOUSE. 
Sub. 26. <A ‘‘Lodging House’’ is a building containing more 
than fifteen rooms in which persons are or may be accommodated 
with sleeping apartments for hire by the day, week or month. 


WAREHOUSE. 


Sub. 27. A ‘‘Warehouse’’ is a building used exclusively for 
the storage of merchandise. 


HOSPITAL, SANITARIUM OR SANITORIUM. 


Sub. 28. A ‘‘Hospital, Sanitarium or Sanitorium”’ is a build- 
ing wherein is carried on the business of caring for sick, invalid 
or infirm people. 


Section 569: Measurements For Height, Length and Width 
of Buildings. For the purpose of this Chapter the greater linear 
horizontal dimension of any building shall be its length, and the 
next greater linear horizontal dimension, its width. 

The height of buildings shall be measured from the curb level 
at the center of the main front of the proposed building to the 
under side of the ceiling joists in case of flat roofs, and for high 
pitched roofs the middle of the height of the roof shall be taken 
as the highest point of the building. 

For a building erected upon a street corner, the measurements 
Shall be taken from the curb level opposite the center of either 
front. 


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When the ground upon which the walls of a structure are 
- built is above the street level, the average level for the ground 
adjoining the walls may be taken instead of the curb level for 
the height of such structure. 

When a basement or cellar is above the general level of the 
eround or curb levels not exceeding four (4) feet, then the 
measurements shall be taken from the ceiling of basement or 
cellar. 


Section 570: Tests of Brick. The brick used in all buildings 
or chimneys shall be good, well-burnt brick, or some approved 
form of hard sandlime or cement brick. 

All brick must be thoroughly wetted before using. 

All materials must be of good quality. 

When old brick are used in any wall they shall be thoroughly 
cleaned before being used and shall be whole and good, hard, 
well-burnt brick. 


Section 571: Test of Sand. The sand used for mortar in all 
buildings shall be clean, grit sand, free from loam or dirt. 


Section 572: Test of Lime Mortar. Lime mortar shall be 
made of one part lime and not more than five (5) parts of sand, 
measured dry. All lime used for mortar shall be thoroughly 
burnt of good quality, and properly slaked before it 1s mixed 
with sand. Such mortar must be mixed at least six (6) days 
before using. 


Section 573: Test of Portland Cement. The standard of every 
brand of Portland cement the use of which is permitted in the 
City of Alameda, shall be maintained in quality, burning, fine- 
ness, chemical analysis, physical tests, and in every other con- 
sideration by which the good character of cement is determined. 
It shall meet the following specific requirements: : 

In SPECIFIC GRAVITY it shall be not less than 3.1 thor- 
oughly dried at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. 

In FINENESS at least 92 per centum shall pass a No. 100 
standard testing sieve, and at least 80 per centum shall pass a 
No. 200 sieve. 

In CHEMICAL ANALYSIS it shall contain not more than 4 
per centum magnesia (MgO) nor more than 2 per centum gy))sum 


(CaSO4). 


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In PAT TESTS pats of neat cement about one-half inch thick 
and three inches in diameter, with thin edges, after hard set in 
air or immersed in water, shall show no sign of cracking, dis- 
eoloration or disintegration, and when submitted to the boiling 
test shall give satisfactory evidence of soundness, without crack- 
ing, blowing or warping. 

In TENSILE TESTS neat cement briquettes shall develop the 
following tensile strength per square inch: 

24 hours in water, after hard set—125 pounds. 

7 days, 1 day in air, 6 days in water—450 pounds. 

28 days, 1 day in air, 27 days in water—600 pounds. 

In TENSILE TESTS sand briquettes made of a standard sand 
passing a No. 20 sieve and retained on a No. 30 sieve, three 
parts of sand to one of cement by weight, shall develop the fol- 
lowing tensile strength per square inch: 

7 days, 1 day in air and 6 days in water—125 pounds. 

28 days, 1 day in air, 27 days in water—300 pounds. 


Section 574: Tests of Cement Mortar. ‘‘Cement Mortar’’ shall 
be made of cement and sand in the proportion of one part of 
cement and not more than three parts of sand, and shall be 
used within twenty (20) minutes after being mixed. The cement 
and sand are to be measured and thoroughly mixed before ad- 
ding water. 


Section 575: Test of Cement and Lime Mortar. Cement and 
hme mortar, mixed, shall be made of one (1) part cement to 
six (6) parts of ime mortar, measured in a box, and shall be 
used within thirty (30) minutes after the cement is mixed in. 
Said mortar except as to the cement used therein shall be mixed 
at least six (6) days before using. 


Section 576: Test of Concrete. Concrete shall be made of 
Portland cement, sharp, clean sand and broken stone, broken 
brick, terra cotta or cinders. Concrete made with broken stone 
shall be termed rock concrete. Rock concrete for foundations 
shall be composed of one part Portland cement to eight parts of 
aggregates composed of sand and broken stone or gravel of 
major dimensions not more than two inches. Rock concrete for 
floors, backing of ashlars, fireproofing and reinforced concrete 
walls shall be composed of one part Portland cement, two parts 


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sand and four parts broken stone of major dimensions not ex- 
ceeding one inch. 

Conerete made of broken brick, terra cotta or cinders shall 
be mixed in the proportion of one part of Portland cement to 
six parts of aggregates compound of sand and broken brick, 
terra cotta or cinders, as the case may be. Such conerete shall 
only be used for floor slabs and fire-proofing. The brick and 
terra cotta must be thoroughly wetted before using. 


Section 577: Strength of Floors. Every floor shall be of suffi- 
cient strength to bear safely the weight to be imposed thereon 
in addition to the weight of the materials of which the floor is 
composed. If to be used as a dwelling house, apartment house, 
tenement house, hotel or lodging house, each floor shall be of 
sufficient strength in all its parts to bear safely upon every 
superficial foot of its surface not less than sixty pounds; if to 
be used for office purposes, not less than seventy-five pounds 
upon any superficial foot above the first floor, and for the 
latter floor one hundred and fifty pounds; if to be used as a 
school or place of instruction, not less than seventy-five pounds 
upon every superficial foot; if to be used for stable and car- 
riage house purposes, not less than seventy-five pounds upon 
every superficial foot; if to be used as a place of public assembly, 
not less than one hundred and twenty-five pounds upon every 
superficial foot; if to be used for ordinary stores, light manu- 
facturing and light storage, not less than one hundred and 
twenty pounds upon every superficial foot; if to be used as a 
store where heavy materials are kept and stored warehouse, 
factory or other manufacturing or commercial purposes, not less 
than two hundred and fifty pounds upon every superficial foot. 

The strength of factory floors intended to carry running ma- 
chinery shall be increased above the minimum given in this 
section in proportion to the degree of vibratory impulse lable 
to be transmitted to the floor and as may be required by the 
Council. 


Section 578: Strength and Pitch of Roofs. The roofs of all 
buildings having a pitch of less than twenty degrees shall be 
proportioned to bear safely fifty pounds upon every superficial 
foot of their surface in addition to the weight of materials com- 
posing the same. If the pitch be more than twenty degrees. the 


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live load shall be assumed at thirty pounds upon every super- 
ficial foot measured upon an horizontal plane. 


Section 579: Strength of Sidewalks. For sidewalks be- 
tween the curb and area lines, the live load shall be taken at 
three hundred pounds upon every superficial foot. 


Section 580: Strength of Beams and Girders. All beams in 
the building shall be proportioned to carry the full dead and 
live load. 

In buildings used for offices, dwellings, apartment ‘houses, 
hotels, lodging houses, hospitals and schools, all girders shall 
be proportioned to carry the full dead loan and eighty per 
centum of the required live load, and the columns shall be pro- 
portioned to carry the full dead load and sixty per centum of the 
required live load. 

In buildings used for warehouses, stores, libraries, halls and 
theaters, all beams, girders and columns shall be designed to 
earry the full dead and live load. 


Section 581: Equal Distribution of Weight on Floors. The 
weight placed upon any of the floors of any building shall be 
safely distributed thereon. The Building Inspector may require 
the owner or occupant of any building or any portion thereof 
to redistribute the load on any floor or to lighten such load 
where said Building Inspector deems it necessary. 


Section 582: Wood Frame Buildings Defined. A wood frame 
building is a building or structure whose exterior walls, or a 
portion thereof, are constructed of wood. 


Section 583: Frame Buildings Defined. Buildings sheathed 
with boards and partially or entirely covered with four inches 
or less of brick work, stone or terra cotta, shall be deemed frame 
buildings. 

Wood frame buildings covered with metal shall be deemed to 
be frame buildings. 


Section 584: Necessity for Permit to Alter or Repair Wood 
Frame Buildings. Wood frame buildings now erected within 
fire limits No. 1 shall not be altered or repaired without a permit 
from the Building Inspector. No wood frame building now 


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erected within fire limits No. 1 shall be enlarged or built upon 
in any manner except as provided for by this ordinance. 


Section 585: Exclusion of Wood and Frame Buildings From 
Fire Limits No. 1. Wood frame buildings shall not be erected 
within fire limits No. 1. Frame buildings may be constructed 
to a height not exceeding fifty-five (55) feet, anywhere in the 
city except within fire limits No. 1; provided, however, that 
this type of construction shall not be permitted for theaters 
over one story in height. 


Section 586: Weight to be Carried by Frame Buildings. 
Frame buildings shall be designed to carry the loads specified 
in sections 577, 578, 579, 580 and 581 of this Article. 

Section 587: Height Limitation. Wood frame buildings shall 
be limited to a height of fifty-five (55) feet. | 


Section 588: Walls of Wood Frame Buildings. The walls of 
wood frame buildings, to be used as dwellings, stores, theaters, 
or assembly halls, shall be constructed with studding, covered 
with weather-boarding on the outside; said boarding shall be 
continuous to the uppermost plate. No uncovered studding will 
be allowed against the wall of an adjoining building or structure. 
Where shingles are used, the walls shall be sheathed solid. 


Section 589: Veneered Walls. The outer walls of wood frame 
buildings, veneered with brick, stone, concrete, or terra cotta 
shall be at least nine (9) inches in thickness, including veneer, 
studding and boarding. 

No building over three (3) stories in height shall be veneered 
with brick, stone or terra cotta. 

No veneering of brick, stone or terra cotta on any frame 
building shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height. 

Veneering walls must be anchored to each stud every two (2) 
feet in height. 


Section 590: Thickness of Foundation Walls. Sub. 1. Wocd 
frame buildings one story high which are used or to be used 
for dwellings or stores or theaters shall have a masonry or con- 
crete foundation not less than six (6) inches thick and not less 
than ten (10) inches high with a footing not less than ten (10) 
inches. 


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Sub. 2. Wood frame buildings two stories high shall have 
masonry or concrete foundations not less than eight (8) inches 
thick, and not less than one and one-quarter (1 1-4) feet, nor 
more than five (5) feet in height, with a footing not less than 
twelve (12) inches. When foundations are more than five (5) 
feet in height, they must be not less than thirteen (13) inches 
thick. 

Sub. 3. Foundations for three-story wood frame buildings shall 
be of masonry or concrete not less than thirteen (13) inches thick 
nor less than two (2) feet in height, and for wood frame build- 
ings over three stories, the foundations shall not be less than 
seventeen (17) inches thick, nor less than two (2) feet in height. 

Sub. 4. Foundations for all buildings where the surface of 
the earth pitches at an angle of more than twenty (20) degrees, 
shall be stepped in on a level. 

Sub. 5. All masonry or concrete foundations except for one- 
story buildings shall be laid not less than twelve (12) inches 
below the surface of the earth and on solid ground. 

Sub. 6. All buildings over four (4) stories in height shall 
have foundation or basement walls of masonry or concrete not 
less than seventeen (17) inches thick and shall not be less than 
two (2) feet, nor more than twelve (12) feet high from top to 
top footing to bottom of first story floor joists. 

Sub. 7. Footings shall have a spread of one-half (14) the 
thickness of the wall resting on them. 

Sub. 8. Where there are no footings on the outside of a 
foundation or basement wall, the footings must extend far enough 
on the inside to make them the required width. 


Section 591: Size of Studding—For Exterior Walls and 
Bearing Partitions. Minimum sizes of studding for all buildings 
used as dwellings, stores, theaters, or houses of public asseim- 
bly shall be as follows: 

Sub. 1. Studding in one story 2x4, studding supporting one 
story above 2x4, studding supporting two stories above 2x6 or 
3x4, studding supporting three stories above 3x6 or 4x4. 

Sub. 2. Where the bearing partitions are less than twelve 
(12) feet apart, the studding may be less than the outside walls, 
but shall not be less than 2x4 inches. 


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Sub. 3. Partitions dividing several stairways and sliding doors 
shall be not less than 2x3 inches. 

Sub. 4. Studding on the exterior and interior walls of build- 
ings over one story in height shall be placed not more than 
sixteen (16) inches on centers, unless the studding be increased 
proportionately in size. . 


Section 592: Underpinning. The underpinning of a one story 
building shall be not less in size than 2x4 inches, not to ex- 
ceed sixteen (16) inches on centers, or 2x6 inches not to ex- 
ceed twenty-four (24) inches on centers. 

The underpinning of buildings of two stories or over in height, 
shall be not less than one inch thicker than the studding of the 
story immediately above, or its equivalent in size, and such 
underpinning shall not be placed over sixteen (16) inches on 
centers. 


section 593: Floor Joists. Floor joists in wood frame build- 
ings shall be placed not to exceed sixteen (16) inches on centers, 
where flooring one (1) inch thick or less is to be laid. 


Section 594: Solid Bridging Over Joists and Partitions. In 
all buildings over one story in height the floor joists shall be 
solid bridged on the ends and where the floor joists in such 
buildings are over 24 feet in length, they shall be solid bridged 
on the ends and in the center. In all buildings over one story in 
height the floor joists shall be sold bridged by bridging not 
less than two inches thick and securely nailed. over all bearing 
partitions which are over ten feet apart. 


Section 595: Dividing Partitions. All dividing partitions be- 
tween buildings shall be close boarded from the lower floors to 
the ground, and from the upper celings close to the underside 
of the roof boarding, so as to effectually check all connection 
from one building to another. Where a large building is divided 
into tenements the boarding shall be applied on each dividing 
_ partition. The distance between dividing partitons shall not 
exceed twenty-five (25) feet. 


Section 596: Attics. Attics or the unfinished space between 
the ceiling and roof rafters of all buildings shall be divided into 
compartments or rooms. Such compartments shall not have a 
floor space area of more than twenty-five hundred (2500) square 


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feet. These division walls shall be made solid of either tongue 
and groove boarding or lathe and plaster. 


Section 597: To Have Access to Attic. All buildings shall 
be constructed so as to permit of access to the attic. 


Section 598: Water Closets or Urinals. Each and every cow- 
partment wherein a water closet, or urinal is situated shall be 
ventilated by means of a window directly to the external at- 
mosphere, and having an area of at least four. square feet, or 
by means of an air shaft having an area of at least one (1) squart 
foot, and undiminished in size to the roof. 


Section 599: Manner of Framing. When stories are framed 
separately each tier of studding must have top and bottom plates, 
and the top plates must be doubled; when stories are not framed 
separately, proper bridging must be placed behind the ribbon 
at the ceiling line or spring line of the cove, and on top of 
the joist at the floor line. Bridging must be two (2) inches 
thick and of the full width of the studding in every case. 

All wood beams or joists shall be trimmed away at least one 
(1) inch from all flues and chimneys, whether the same be a 
smoke, air or any other kind of chimney or flue. This shal! 
not apply to boarding against exterior chimneys. 


Section 600: Bridgings. All stud walls or partitions hereafter 
built, altered or repaired shall have rows of bridging not more 
than seven feet apart. 

Sub. 1. Said bridging shall in all cases extend to the lathing 
or sheathing and shall be the same width as the studding and 
not less than two (2) inches thick. 

Sub. 2. All outside walls and cross partitions shall be thor- 
oughly angle braced. 

Sub. 3. A row of lattice bridging at least two (2) inches 
thick must be placed between the floor joists’at least in every 
twelve (12) foot span and all spans of floor joists over twentv- 
three (23) feet shall have two (2) rows of cross bridging. 


Section 601: Furring. When a chimney is furred out, the 
space between the chimney and the breast shall be so built that 
the passage of fire and smoke shall be intercepted and whereaver 
cove ceilings are used they shall be solid blocked between the 
studding at the spring line of the cove and wherever ceilings 


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are dropped below the line of top plates, they shall be solid 
blocked between studs. 


Section 602: Bay, Oriel or Swell Windows. Bay, oriel or 
swell windows projecting over the street and constructed iti 
frame buildings shall have spaces of not less than five (5) feet 
in width, measured on outside of building clear of finish; pro- 
vided that in buildings built on lots having a frontage of twen- 
ty-five (25) feet or less, the space between said bay, oriel or 
swell windows may be decreased, providing the studding in said 
space shall be increased in thickness so as to contain the same 
amount of lumber as would be contained in the studding of the 
piers in the aforesaid spaces of five (5) feet, but the spaces shall 
be at least two (2) feet six (6) inches between bays in any case. 

When such windows project over street such projection shall 
not be more than three (3) feet over the street, measured to 
the finish, and they must not be more than twelve (12) feet 
wide, measured from end to end, and the finish of their soffits 
must be at least twelve (12) feet above the sidewalk. 


Section 603: Necessity for a Chimney Permit. No person. 
firm or corporation, shall hereafter construct, reconstruct, or 
repair any chimney, fireplace or hearth, or put an inlet into 
any flue. without first having obtained a permit from the Build- 
ing Inspector so to do. If a Building permit has been issued 
for the work prescribed in this chapter no additional permit 
will be required. 


Section 604: Manner of Applying for Permit. ‘The person 
making application for such a permit shall give the location by 
street and house number, the name and address of the owner and 
builder, and a detailed description of the work to be done. 


Section 605: Necessity for Inspection Before Use. The con- 
struction, reconstruction or repair of all chimneys, fire-places - 
and hearths and the installation of all inlets to flues, shall be 
done in accordance with this article, and no chimney, fire-place 
or inlet to flue shall be used, until inspection has been made, 
and the written approval of the Building Inspector obtained. 


Section 606: Fees for Permit. When making application for 
a permit as required by section 604 the sum of twenty-five (25) 
cents shall be paid for each story of the building which the 


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chimney passes, and a separate fee shall be paid for each flue. 
For all other work done as required by this Chapter the fee 
shall be twenty-five (25) cents, but no additional fee shall be 
required for a fire-place or inlets to chimneys. 


Section 607: When Basement or Attic to Count as One Story. 
Where the distance from the floor of a basement to the floor 
next above is seven feet or more, or where the side walls of an 
attic exceed in height four feet and six inches measured from 
foot of rafters to top of floor joists, then such basement or attic 
shall be estimated as one story. 


Section 608: Construction of Chimneys and Flues in Build. 
ings—Materials. All chimneys and flues hereafter constructed, 
except as otherwise herein provided shall be of conerete or 
masonry with all joints well filled with mortar; their enclosing 
wall shall be not less than four (4) inches thick and division walls 
not less than two (2) inches thick. 

When a brick chimney is built in frame buildings, the same 
shall start on the ground and not be increased in size above the 
foundation and in no case shall the frame of the building come 
within one (1) inch of the chimney. 

Where flue lining is not used or where the enclosing wall of 
the chimney is less than eight (8) inches, the flue shall be 
smoothly plastered within for its entire length and on the out- 
side where concealed, from below the lowest timber coming in 
close proximity to the chimney and up to and against roof 
boards. 

Sub. 1. No smoke fiue shall be less than fifty (50) square 
inches in area and such sized flue shall have not more than two 
inlets, for three inlets the flues shall be not less than elehty 
(80) square inches in area; for four inlets not less than one 
hundred and ten (110) square inches in area, and for a larger 
number of inlets the size shall be increased in same proportion. 
Flues larger than two hundred square inches and less than 
five hundred square inches shall be surrounded by walls not 
less than eight inches thick; flues larger than five hundred and 
less than one thousand square inches shall be surrounded by 
walls not less than twelve inches thick to a height of fifteen 
feet above the inlet, and eight inches thick’ the remaining 
height; fines larger than one thousand square inches shall he 


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proportionately increased in size and shall be lined with fire- 
brick for at least twenty feet above the linet. 

Sub. 2. Bakery oven fiues shall be not less than one hundred 
and forty-four (144) square inches in area and shall be sur- 
rounded by brick work not less than eight inches thick. 

Sub. 3. The inside four inches of all boiler flues for- boilers 
of over twenty-five (25) horse-power shall be of fire-brick, laid in 
fire-clay mortar, for a distance of twenty-five feet in any diree- 
tion from the source of heat. 

Sub. 4. All chimneys having a greater flue area than two 
hundred and sixty (260) square inches shall be carried up at 
least ten feet above the highest point of the roof of the building 
of which they form a part and ten feet above the highest point 
of any roof within fifty feet of such chimney. 

Sub. 5. When a smoke pipe enters a brick chamney, a thimble 
shall be used. All thimbles used shall be made of fire-clay not 
less than one-half (14) inch in thickness and shall be bricked 
around with not less than four (4) inches of brick corbelied 
out to face of thimble. 

Sub. 6. Chimneys not part of a wall shall not be built upon 
any floor or beam of wood, but shali be built from the ground 
up, and shall not increase in size from the foundation. No chim- 
ney shall be corbelled out more than eight inches from a wall, 
and corbelling shall consist of at least five courses of brick, but 
no corbelling shall be more than four inches in twelve-inch 
walls. Offsets for reducing the size of chimneys shall not be 
greater than one inch to each course. 

Sub. 7. No joists or girder shall be supported on the walls 
of any chimney or flue. 

Sub. 8. Chimneys built outside of frame structures or in 
light walls thereof, shall be well anchored to the stud walls at 
intervals of not less than ten feet. 

Sub. 9. All chimneys and flues, except as otherwise provided 
herein shall extend at least four feet above a roof, wherever they 
come through the peak or ridge of a roof, they shall extend 
three feet above said peak or ridge and if arising above the 
roof more than six times their thickness shall be properly 
anchored. 

Sub. 10. Chimneys and stacks connected with steam boilers 
shall extend not less than ten feet above the woodwork of the 


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roof, or any adjacent roof, and if sawdust, shavings or wood 
are burned, shall extend twenty feet above such roof and he 
provided with spark arresters. Spark arresters shall be placed 
upon all stacks and chimneys whenever by the Building In- 
spector deemed necessary for the safety of property. 

Sub. 11. Chimneys and flues from boilers, restaurant and 
hotel ranges, bakers’ oven, and similar unusually hot flues, shall 
have the outside exposed to the height of the rooms in which 
connection therewith is made, or be plastered directly upon the 
bricks. 

Sub. 12. All chimneys and flues shall be properly cleaned 
and all rubbish removed and same left smooth on the inside on 
completion of building and before using the same. 

Sub. 13. All bricks used in the construction of chimneys shall 
be thoroughly wetted before using. All draughts shall be blocked 
at each floor. 

Section 609: Fireplaces and Chimney Breasts. All fireplaces 
and chimney breasts where mantels are placed except as provided 
for patent chimney fireplaces, whether intended for ordinary 
fireplaces or not, shall have trimmer arches to support the 
hearth or iron bars covered with a sheet of asbestos: arches 
shall be of brick, stone or burnt clay, at least twenty inches 
wide measured from the face of the chimney breast, and their 
length shall not be less than one foot more than the width of the 
fireplace or grate opening. Wood centers shall be removed 
from under trimmer arches, and no timber shall be placed under 
any fireplaces or hearth. Hearths shall be of brick, tile or stone. 
No wooded header shall be within ten (10) inches of the erate 
arch, 

Open place fireplaces shall have arched heads with an iron 
arched bar over the top of the opening. not less than 15x21, 
inches turned up at the end two inches in each side of a ehimney 
breast, so as to make a perfect bond for arch, and the emtuse 
of brick resting on the arch bar shall be corbelled out not 
less than one inch beyond face of chimney. The course of brick 
directly under studding header shall be corbelled out to the 
face of header. The firebacks and jambs of all fireplaces shall 
not be less than eight inches thick of solid masonry, and a lining 
of firebrick at least two inches thick shall be added. and filled 
solidly behind with fireproof material. 


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Section 610: Open Fireplaces. Open fireplaces shall have 
arched heads, which shall, whenever possible, extend to the 
back of the tile or marble facing. 

Section 611: Patent Chimneys. Chimneys hereafter erected 
must be built subject to provisions hereof, of brick, stone or 
concrete, or a chimney known as a ‘‘Patent Chimney,’’ for 
which a United States patent has been issued, and which has 
been approved by resolution of the Council. 

Sub. 1. All ‘‘Patent Chimneys’’ shall be built up from the 
floor on which they are used, and in no ease shall a stovepipe 
enter the bottom of a Patent Chimney. 

Sub. 2. If a patented chimney be erected on the outside 
of a building, it shall rest on a substantial iron bracket, fast- 
ened to the studding with bolts or lag screws. When erected 
on the inside of a building it shall rest on an iron plate, not 
less than one-quarter of an inch in thickness, and not less 
than eight (8) inches of brickwork on the top of said iron plate, 
and shall have a smokeproof opening near the bottom for eclean- 
ing it. All patented chimneys shall be braced every four feet 
of their height. All joints must be cemented, and the bands 
covering the joints shall be made of the best No. 24 galvanized 
iron and filled with cement. 

Sub. 3. All galvanized iron used for the outside covering 
of patented chimneys shall be of the best No. 24 iron, riveted 
together with rivets not more than three (3) inches apart, or may 
be seamed and top and bottom of seams secured by rivets, and 
shall be ventilated by eight holes, not less than one (1) inch 
in diameter, said holes to be made close to the top of chimney 
above the roof, so as to permit the escape of hot air; there 
shall be a space of not less than one inch between the clay pipe 
and the iron covering. No patented chimney shall be less than 
one inch between the clay pipe and the iron covering. No pat- 
ented chimney shall be less than one and one-half inches from all 
woodwork and the opening in the roof and in each floor and 
ceiling through which it passes, shall be closed with an iron 
plate or other fireproof material. Patented chimneys shall not 
be fastened to the laths of the siding of the building, but shall 
be securely fastened to the studding or cross pieces with good 
iron straps, and in no ease shall any patent chimney be sus- 
pended from any roof, timber or floor beam. 


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Sub. 4. The relation of area of chimney to inlets shall be as 
provided in section 608. 

Sub. 5. All pipe used for patented chimneys shall be com- 
posed of pure calcined clay, not less than one (1) inch in thick- 
ness. 

Sub. 6. Patented chimneys built on the inside of a house shall 
have an opening in the partition enclosing the chimney to per- 
mit of the cleaning of the same. 

Sub. 7. On one story buildings used as residences the cost 
of which does not exceed One thousand ($1000) dollars, terra 
cotta chimneys may be used without galvanized iron coverings, 
provided that no part of said building is within three (3) feet 
of the adjoining property line or within any of the Fire Limits 
and that otherwise said chimney conforms to the regulations 
for patent chimneys. 


Section 612: Fireplaces Connected With Patent Chimneys or 
Gas Logs. All fireplaces connected with patent chimneys or gas 
logs must be set on an iron plate, not less than one-quarter 
of an inch in thickness and not less than three (3) feet nine 
(9) inches in length by three (3) feet in width, which shall be 
free from all holes. Boards shall not be placed under the iron 
plates, which must rest on the floor joists. On top of the iron 
plate there shall be one (1) inch of concrete or cement, then a 
course of brick, followed by the tiling or marble. The strength 
of the floor must not be impaired by the cutting out for the fire- 
place. In lieu of resting on the floor joists said iron plates may 
be suspended by wrought iron stirrups of sufficient strength to 
sustain the fireplace and patent chimney. 

The brick jamb of every fireplace or grate opening shall be 
at least eight (8) inches wide, and the backs shall not be less 
than eight (8) inches thick and where fireplaces come over one 
another on separate floors, the jamb of the lower fireplace shall 
be wide enough to carry the patented chimney far enough to 
one side of the jamb above so that the patent chimney will pass 
the upper fireplace in as straight a line as possible. Where 
bends are necessary in patented chimneys off-sets shall be used. 
Said offsets shall be made solid and without joints. 


Section 613: Inside Dimensions of Patent Chimneys. The 
inside dimensions of patent chimneys shall be as follows: 


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For fireplace flues, 18-inch openings—6 inches. 

For fireplace flues, 21-inch openings—7 inches. 

For fireplace flues, 24-inch openings—8 inches. 

For ordinary stove flues—6 inches. 

For French range flues—8 inches. 

For steel range flues—8 inches. 

For furnace flues—8 or 10 inches. 

And it is herein provided that any chimney, though not pat- 
ented, may be erected of terra cotta pipes surrounded with gal- 
vanized iron and otherwise complying with section 608 in so far 
as said section is applicable. 


Section 614: Smoke Pipes. No smoke pipes, stove-pipes, terra 
cotta pipe, earthen pipe, or other smoke flue except as provided 
in this ordinance shall project through any external wall or 
window or through the roof of any skylight of any building, 
and no smoke flue shall pass through any wooden partition of 
any building unless there is a ventilated air space at least four 
(4) inches around the pipe. Any smoke pipe passing through 
the floor or floors of any building shall be projected by a metal 
casing, extending from the ceiling to at least one (1) foot above 
the floor, and there shall be a ventilated air space of a least 
four (4) inches around the said pipe. 


Section 615: Unsafe Stovepipes. If the Building Inspector 
declares that a galvanized iron pipe is not sufficient for the safety 
of a building or adjoining buildings, said Inspector shall intorm 
the owner or owners, or the person having control thereof, and 
order a brick or terra cotta chimney to be erected in lieu thereof 
within ten (10) days after such notice. 


Section 616: Gas Grates and Logs. Gas grates or logs shall 
not be placed in any building elsewhere than in a fireplace con- 
structed in the manner prescribed in sections 609 and 610 of this 
Article. All gas grates or gas log fireplaces shall be connected 
wth a brick, concrete or patent chimney, or galvanized asbestos 
covered vent at least ten (10) feet in length from base of fire- 
place. Said brick, concrete or patent chimneys shail be erected 
and constructed in strict accordance with the provisicns and 
recuirements of the sections of this Ordinance which govern the 
erection and construction of brick. concrete and patent chimneys. 
Provided, however, that the Biuleing Inspeetor be, and he is 


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hereby directed to permit gas grates, gas logs, or gas heaters, 
without vents when fresh air is admitted to the mantle, er 
heater, from the outside of the building. 

Section 617: Steel Cupola Chimneys. Steel cupola chimneys 
of foundries shall extend at least ten feet above the highest 
point of any roof within a radius of fifty (50) feet cf such 
cupola. No woodwork shall be placed within two feet of the 
cupola. 


Section 618: Heating Furnaces. The top of all heating fur- 
naces set in brick shall be covered with brick supported by iron 
bars, so constructed as to be perfectly tight; said coverings 
shall be in addition to and not less than six inches from the ord- 
inary covering of the hot air chamber. Smoke pipes and fur- 
naces not set in brick shall be at least two feet from any wood- 
work, unless if said smoke pipes and furnaces are less than 
two feet from any woodwork, said woodwork must be protected 
by sheets of tin plate in such manner that an air space of at least 
two inches will be formed between the woodwork and the tin 
plate, which shall extend one (1) foot beyond the furnace on 
all sides. 


Section 619: Fireproof Room for Boilers or Furnace. Every 
boiler or furnace in any building used for either stores, offices, 
mechanical or manufacturing purposes, or in hotels, theaters, 
or assembly halls, or places of public entertainment, shall be 
enclosed in a fireproof room of brick or concrete walls. All 
doors leading into such rooms shall be constructed as provided 
in section 644 of this Ordinance 


Section 620: Proximity of Sceam Pipes to Wood. No steam 
pipes, within any of the fire limits, shall be placed closer to 
wood than three (3) inches, and if said space is objectionable 
it shall be protected by a soapstone or earthen ring or tube. 


Section 621: Hot Air Boxes. All hot air boxes hereafter 
placed in the floors or partitions of buildings, except when such 
are entirely of incombustible materials, shall be made of double 
pipes of tin plate, which shall be not less than one-half an inch 
apart and set in soapstone or equally fireproof borders, not less 
than two. inches in width, to which the pipes shall be tightly 
joined by inserting the same into a groove, or the pipes and 


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boxes shall be covered with asbestos one-sixteenth of an inch 
in thickness cemented thereon. 

Hot air boxes or pipes less than ten inches by twelve inches 
(10x12) in size shall be kept at least half an inch from any wood- 
work; those of greater size shall be kept at least one ineh from 
any woodwork. No woodwork shall be placed within one inch 
of any metal pipe intended to convey steam or heated air, 
unless such pipe is protected by a facing of metal, soapstone or 
earthen ring; provided that no covering, except it be of incom- 
bustible material, shall be placed within one inch of the outer sur- 
face of any steam pipe. 

Section 622: Erection of Steam Boilers, Furnaces, Etc. Boil- 
ers exceeding ten horsepower, used for generating steam for 
heating or motive power, and large furnaces, shall not be placed 
on any floor above the cellar of any building, unless the same 
is set on metal beams and arches and such beams shall be built 
into the walls. 

Whenever steam boilers, large cooking ranges, furnaces, ovens, 
eoffee roasters, candy kettles, and laundry stoves set in brick, 
or other structures in which fires are maintained, are set or 
kept on any wooden floor, such floors shall be protected by not 
less than two (2) inches of brick laid with air spaces, or with 
not less than two (2) inches of hollow tiles, upon either of 
which shall rest a continuous sheet of metal bearing plate, not 
less than three-sixteenth (3-16) inches in thickness, all joints of 
which shall be securely riveted; the top of said plate shall be cov- 
ered with not less than five (5) inches of brick and concrete. 

The backs of all ranges or kettles set in brick, built against 
any frame partition, or against any brick wall upon which there 
is any wooden furring, or laths, or sheathing, shall be extended 
with brick or hollow tiles to the height of two (2) feet above the 
top of such range or kettle. 


Section 623: Construction Where Heating Boilers Used. 
When heating boilers are used, that portion of the ceiling over 
the boiler and within a radius of four (4) feet therefrom shall 
be plastered on metal lath or be protected by imcombustible 
shields. Wood or combustible floors and beams under and not 
less than three (3) feet in front and one (1) foot on the sides of 
all portable boilers shall be protected by a suitable brick foun- 


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dation of not less than two (2) courses of brick well laid in 
mortar on sheet iron. 


Section 624: Fire Escapes. For the proper and necessary 
protection of life and property, all buildings that are already 
erected and built, or that may hereafter be erected and built in 
the City of Alameda shall be provided and equipped with fire 
escapes as follows: 

Every building of four stories or more, and every building of 
three stories in height, when used or occupied as a theater, 
hospital, asylum, school, seminary, academy, college, hotel, tene- 
ment house, apartment house, lodging house, factory, mill, manu- 
factory, workshop, or for public entertainments or assemblages 
and every school building of three stories in height, shall be 
provided and equipped with metallic fire escapes combined with 
suitable metallic balconies, platforms and railing, firmly secured 
to the outer walls and erected and arranged in such a way and 
in such proximity to one or more windows, or to as many win- 
dows of each story above the first as may be necessary to make 
and render said fire escapes readily accessible, safe and adequate 
for the escape of the inmates in case of fire, and when placed 
on the rear or sides of building not adjoining a street they shall 
extend down to within eight (8) feet of the ground. 

Said fire escapes shall extend from the level of the ceiling of 
the first story to and over the roof, and shall be either vertical 
metallic ladder fire escapes, metallic stair fire escapes, or other 
approved fire escapes. The council shall determine the kind, 
construction, location and number of fire escapes, necessary and 
adequate on all such buildings to make the means of escape 
therefrom easy and safe to the inmates in ease of fire. 


Section 625: Standpipes. For the proper and necessary pro- 
tection of life and property, all buildings hereinafter designated 
in this section and ordinance that are already erected and built, 
or that may be erected and built in the City of Alameda shall be 
provided and equipped with standpipes as follows: 

Every building of four stories in height shall have inside or 
outside of the exterior walls one or more metallic standpipes at 
least four (4) inches in diameter, which shall extend from four 
(4) feet above the sidewalk to and over the roof and rest on the 
firewalls, and at each story there shall be branches with 3-inch 


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gate valves with reducer from three (3) inches to 21% inches, 
provided with cap and chain; and there shall be a two-way 
Siamese inlet with 3-inch connection attached to each standpipe 
four (4) feet above the line of the sidewalk; and a two-way 
outlet over the roof with two 3-inch gate valves with reducer 
from 3 inches to 2% inches, provided with cap and chain. 


Section 626: Passage to Exits Required in Certain Buildings. 
All buildings used or occupied or constructed to be used or 
occupied as hospitals, asylums, seminaries, hotels, apart- 
ment houses, lodging house or workshops shall have on each 
floor a passage free and unobstructed, leading direct to each 
fire escape. 

The following are exempt from the above requirements: 

Apartment houses where every apartment has direct access 
to a fire escape, which either faces on a street or from which 
there is a direct passage to the street. 

All buildings not exceeding in width thirty (30) feet outside 
measurement and not situated on a street corner. 

The council shall determine the location of passage and exits 
thereto necessary and adequate on all such buildings hereinbefore 
specified so as to make the means of escape therefrom easy and 
safe in case of fire or panic. 

The minimum width of passage to exits shall be as follows: 

To an exit on a building, frontage of from thirty (30) to forty 
(40) feet, two (2) feet and six (6) inches wide. 

To an exit on all buildings over forty (40) feet frontage, three 
(3) feet wide. 

Provided, however, that the width of passage to exits shall 
be increased to from three (3) feet to four (4) feet six (6) 
inches at the discretion of the council, in case of hospitals, asy- 
lums, hotels and other buildings where a great number of people 
congregate or are housed. 


Section 627: Awnings. No wooden awning or wooden shade 
shall be constructed or maintained over the sidewalk or any 
other portion of any street or avenue. 


Section 628: Construction of Masonry Building and Their 
Application to Fire Limits No. 1. It shall be unlawful for any 
person to construct or erect any building, or addition thereto 


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within Fire Limits Number One unless the same be of masonry 
construction. No building shall be moved to any point within 
said Fire Limits Number One unless it conform to the regula- 
tions for buildings within said limits. Masonry buildings may 
be erected anywhere wthin the city limits. 


Section 629: How Masonry Buildings are to be Constructed. 
All masonry buildings hereafter erected shall be made and con- 
structed of brick, concrete or stone, and every building of brick, 
concrete or stone, that shall be newly roofed or covered, shall 
be constructed with side walls or party walls of brick, concrete 
or stone, and such side walls or party walls shall extend from 
the foundation to the top of and through the roof of the build- 
ing, and said walls shall be so constructed as to separate all 
woodwork, thoroughly and completely, of the interior and ex- 
terior of such building from all and every part of the interior and 
exterior of any adjoining building; and every such side wall or 
party wall shall pass through the roof of the building to which 
it may appertain in such manner as to break entirely any com- 
munication of wood whatever between such roof and any other 
building. And all partition walls shall also extend from the 
foundation, and through the roof, the same as side walls or party 
walls. The term ‘‘building’’ as used in this section, shall not 
include privies. The fioors of all buildings shall be constructed 
to bear with safety upon each superficial foot of floor surface 
seventy-five (75) pounds; if used for the following purposes they 
shall be constructed to bear upon each superficial foot of floor 
surface as follows: For a place of public assembly, one hundred 
and twenty (120) pounds; for a flour store of storehouse, five 
hundred (500) pounds; for a warehouse for miscellaneous foods, 
four hundred (400) to six hundred (600) pounds; jewelry stores, 
with safe, three hundred (300) pounds; tenement houses, one 
hundred (100) pounds; dry goods stores, three hundred and 
ten (310) pounds; roofs, fifty (50) pounds. These weights are 
to be exclusive of the weight of the floors and roof. The re- 
quisite dimensions of each piece of material are to be determ- 
ined by computation by the rules given by Treadgold, Hodg- 
kinson, Barlow or Trautwine, or the treatises of other authors 
now or hereafter to be used at the United States Academy at 
West Point on the strength of material, using for constants in 


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the rules only such numbers as have been deduced from experi- 
ment on materials of ike kinds with that proposed to be used. 
And the safe load shall not exceed one third (1-3) of the breaking 
weight as determined by said rules. All gas, water, steam or 
other pipes which may be introduced into any building shall 
not be let into the beams at a greater distance than thirty-six 
(36) inehes from the ends of the beams, and then not to exceed 
one and one-half (114) inches in depth, for all beams of ten to 
twelve inches in depth, not more than two (2) inches for all 
beams of a greater depth; for beams less than ten (10) inches 
the sinking must not exceed one (1) inch in depth. The cover- 
ing of all roofs of buildings within Fire Limits No. 1 shall be 
made and constructed of metal, or some fireproof composition, 
and all buildings now standing requiring re-roofing in whole 
or in part, the covering of such roofs shall be made of metal, 
slate, tiles, terra cotta, asbestos, shingles, a four-ply asbestos: 
roofing, or asphaltum, provided, however, that said asphaltum 
shall be first laid over four plies of felt, or two coats of mial- 
thoid, or equivalent prepared roofing, well cemented together and 
then covered with at least one-half of an inch of gravel emhedded 
in said asphaltum, gravel to be of such size as wil! pass through 
a screen whose meshes shall not exceed one-half inch and be 
rejected by a No. 6 screen. All timber and lumber used in the 
construction and erection, or alterations or repairs to buildings, 
shall be sound an. free from blemish. 

Section 630: Thickness of Walls When Brick Masonry. When 
of brick masonry, the outer or bearing walls of all buildings, if 
less than sixty (60) feet in length without a crosswall, and 
not over the specified height, the thickness of said walls shall 
not be less than that given in the following table. 


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Party walls, or walls of greater length between crosswalls, and 
walls of greater height than those mentioned in the table shall 
be four (4) inches thicker than that specified in the table. 


Por reinforced concrete walls, thickness shall be three-fourths 
of dimensions above specified for brick walls, except that founda- 
tions shall be five-fourths as thick as wall. 


Header courses in walls of brick masonry shall be run in 
every sIX courses. 


Section 631: Thickness of Party Walls. Party walls must be 
four (4) inches thicker than to each tier of beams. The front, 
rear, side, end and party wills shall, if not carried up together, 
be anchored to each other every six (6) feet in their height by 
tier anchors made of one and three-quarters (134) inch by three- 
eighths (3-8) of an inch wrought iron. The said anchors shall 
be built into the full thickness of the front and rear walls, and 
shall have fiat heads not less than eight (8) inches in diameter 
on the outside of said walls, so as to secure the front and rear 
walls to the side, end or party walls; and all stone used for the 
facing of any building except where built with alternate headers 
and stretchers, shall be strongly anchored with iron anchors 
and all such shall be let into the stone at least one CL amen." t ie 
sides, front and rear and party walls shall be anchored to each 
tier of beams at intervals of not more than eight (8) feet, with 
good, strong wrought-iron anchors, three-eights ( 32) by one and 
one-half (114) inches, built in not less than two-thirds (2-3) of the 
thickness of the side walls, and have the ends turned down into 
the joists and securely spiked thereto, and where the beams 
are supported by girders, the ends of the beam resting on the 
girder shall be strapped by wrought-iron straps of the same size, 
and at the same distance apart, and in the same beams as the 
wall anchors. 


Section 632: Wall Anchors. All wall anchors used in any 
building shall be not less than three-eights (3) by one and one- 
half (144) inches wrought iron, not less than three (3) feet, six 
(6) inches in length, turned down into the joists or back tie, 
and shall have a flat head of either wrought or cast iron not 
less than six (6) inches square riveted on. 


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Section 633: Wooden Beams or Timbers in Party or Other 
Walls. All wooden beams or other timbers in the party walls of 
every building hereafter erected or built of stone or brick or 
iron shall be separated from the beam of timber entering in 
the opposite side of the wall by not less than four (4) inches of 
sold mason work, and every beam, joist or bearing timber ‘shall 
rest at least four (4) inches in the wall or on girders, as author- 
ized by this Chapter, exclusive of any corbel or projection from 
the wall. 


No timber shall be used in any wall of any building where 
stone, brick or iron is commonly used, except wall plates to re- 
ceive the roof, bond timbers and lintels, as provided in this Chap- 
ter. 


Section 634: Bond Timbers. No bond timber shall exceed four 
(4) inches in width and three (3) feet in length. 

They shall be laid horizontal, and there shall be eighteen (18) 

inches of solid masonry work between them. In all buildings 
of brick or stone the ends of the joists shall be cut with a bevel 
of not less than three inches. Every trimmer or header more 
than six (6) feet long used in any building except a dwelling 
house shall be hung in a stirrup iron of wrought iron of proper 
thickness and width for the size of the timbers; and all girders, 
trimmers and tie beams and other principal framing timbers 
- shall rest at least eight (8) inches on the walls or girders. 
. Section 635: Necessity for Masonry Buildings to Comply With 
all Provisions of Ordinance. Masonry buildings in addition to 
the requirements laid down specially for such buildings, shall 
comply as near as possible with all other provisions of this 
Chapter. 


section 636: Drying Rooms. Dry rooms, dry boxes and all en- 
closures used for drying by artificial heat, must have the floor 
covered with incombustible material, and be lined throughout 
with tin and asbestos not less than one-eighth (14) inch in thick- 
ness, or other approved incombustible material. 


Section 637: Clothes Chutes. All clothes chutes hereafter 
built within Fire Limits Number One shall be lined with metal, 
and provided with doors or covers made self-closing, so that they 


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may never serve as flues in case of fire. All shafts shall be cov- 
ered with fireproof material. 


Section 638: Light Wells. All light wells shall be covered with 
metal frames and wired glass. 


Section 639: Private or Water-Closets. Private or water- 
closets of wood constructed within the Fire Limits Number One, 
shall not exceed eight (8) feet in height, in the clear of the sur- 
face of the floor and ceiling line. For a hotel or lodging house 
they shall not have more than fifty (50) superficial feet of floor 
room, and for all other buildings they shall not have more than 
twenty-five (25) superficial feet of floor room. 

The roof and the framework shall be covered with some fire- 
proof materials, and they shall not be placed higher than the 
third story of any building, nor project over the line of any 
street, lane, alley or place, and they shall not be used for any 
other purposes. 


Section 640: Sheds. Sheds shall be understood to be open 
structures, inclosed only on one side and end, and erected on the 
ground. They shall not exceed twenty (20) feet in height to the 
highest point of the roof, and, if constructed within the Fire 
Limits Number One, they shall not exceed fifteen (15) feet in 
height to the highest point of the roof, and be covered with fire- 
proof materials. 


Section 641: Dangerous Buildings, Walls, Chimneys or Other 
Structures. Whenever, in the judgment of the Council any build- 
ing, wall or chimney or smokestack, awning or appurtenance to 
a building, shall, from any cause whatever, be in a situation to be 
dangerous to persons or property; or when any wooden building 
within the Fire Limits Number One shall, in the judgment of 
. said Council, be damaged by fire or decay to the extent of forty 
(40) per cent of its actual value, to be estimated above the line 
of sidewalk in front of said building, the Council shall give notice 
to the owner or the owners of such building, wall, chimney or 
smokestack or other appurtenances to a building, sheds or fences, 
or to his, or her, or their agent, or the person having the control 
thereof, if the owner cannot be found,.to remove the same forth- 
with; and the person receiving such notice shall within forty- 
eight hours after receiving the same, comply with the require- 
ments thereof. 


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In the event of a dispute as to the amount of damage caused by 
fire between the owner and the Council, said dispute shall be 
determined by arbitration of competent mechanics, the owner 
to select one (1) arbitrator, the council the other; and in case 
that the arbitrators so chosen do not agree they shall select a 
third, and the decision of the majority shall be final and con- 
clusive, all expences of the arbitration to be paid by the owner. 


Section 642: Repair or Alteration of Wooden Buildings Within 
Fire Limits No. 1. No wooden building within the Fire Limits 
Number One shall be altered, changed or repaired without the 
permission of the council, which permit shall fully express the 
alteration, changes or repairs allowed, a copy of which shall be 
filed by the grantee, within two (2) days thereafter, in the 
office of the Building Inspector, but no permit shall be given 
to increase the size of said building except as provided for in 
this ordinance. 


Section 643: Scuttles in Roof. All buildings more than two 
stories in height, shall have scuttles in roof covered with incom- 
bustible material and iron ladders or iron stairs leading thereto 
from the floor below. No scuttle shall be less in size than twenty 
by thirty (20x30) inches, nor shall any scuttle be placed in any 
place but a hallway if the interior is subdivided in room. The lid 
to any scuttle shall not be locked in any way except with an 
ordinary bolt or lock. 


Section 644: Openings in Exterior or Party Walls. Within 
Fire Limits Number One all openings through exterior or party 
walls, whereby communication is made with an adjoining build- 
ing or room, shall not exceed eight (8) feet in width, and shall 
have an iron lintel or solid brick arch formed with three rollocks, 
with wooden tinelad fire doors on each side of each such opening, 
and not more than one such opening in every fifty feet or por- 
tion thereof in length shall be allowed in said walls in any one 
story. 

Tin clad doors shall be made as follows: Of two (2) thick- 
nesses of matched redwood boards, crossed at right angles, ag- 
eregating 134 inches in thickness nailed with clinched nails and 
covered on both faces and edges, first with one-eighth (1%) inch 
of sheet asbestos and then with 10x14 inch tin plate, with joints 
locked and hammered down over al] nail heads. All hinges, 


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latches and appurtenances shall be bolted to the doors, blinds 
or shutters; and all tracks or stops to be bolted through or into 
the wall with expansion bolts, and all eyes or lugs shall be 
built into the walls. 


Section 645: Garage Within Certain Limits. No auto- 
mobile garage accommodating more than one automobile shall 
be hereafter established and maintained within Fire Limits 
Number One. | 


section 646: Smoke Houses. All smoke or dry houses, within 
any of the fire limits in said city, shall be built of brick or stone, 
and the doors of the same be constructed of some noncombustible 
material. 


Section 647: Buildings in Fire Limits No. I to Comply With 
all Provisions of Law. Buildings constructed within Fire Limits 
Number One in addition to the requirements laid down specially 
for such buildings, shall comply as near as possible with all 
other provisions of this ordinance. 

Section 648: Occupation of Building Constructed or Repaired 
in Violation of Law. No person, firm or corporation, shall oc- 
cupy or use in any manner whatsoever any building erected, 
constructed, altered, repaired, raised, added to or built upon 
in violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance. 

Section 649: Right of Council to Stop Construction or Repair. 
The Council or Building Inspector shall have the power to stop 
the construction of any building or the making of any alteration 
or repairs to any buildings when the same is done in a manner 
dangerous to life or property, or in violation of any of the pro- 
visions of this ordinance. 


Section 650: Misdemeanor. Any person, firm or corporation 


that violates any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 2—THEATERS, OPERA HOUSES AND OTHER 
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT. 


Section 651: Necessity to Conform to Requirement of Article. 
All buildings constructed, erected, altered, or used as theaters, 
opera houses. or moving picture shows shall be constructed, 


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erected, altered, used and maintained in conformity to the pro- 
visions of this article, in addition to such other provisions of 
this ordinance or which may hereafter be adopted which are 
applicable thereto. 


Section 652: Concrete and Masonry Construction—Exceptions 
All buildings deseribed in Section 651 of this ordinance shall be 
built of concrete or masonry construction, but any such build- 
ing which is located without the Fire Limits of the city of 
Alameda and which has a seating capacity of less than 400 per- 
sons may be built of wood frame construction. 


Section 653: Construction of Walls Separating Stage From 
Auditorium. In any such building which has a stage, the walls 
separating the auditorium from the stage and actors’ dressing 
rooms, shall extend at least four (4) feet above the stage roof or 
the auditorium roof if the latter be the higher, and the said wall 
throughout its entire height including the girder over the pros- 
ecenium opening shall be covered with non-combustible material, 
and all partitions, ceilings, side-walls of staircase, soffits of stair 
cases shal! be metal lathed, except that wood wainscoting in 
the auditorium or foyer may be installed to a height not ex- 
ceeding five (5) feet. When the seating capacity is over four 
hundred (400) persons, the proscenium wall shall be brick, con- 
erete or other masonry construction and the opening shall be 
provided with a fire-proof curtain, and all openings through the 
said walls shall have metal clad or fireproof doors which shall 
be hung double acting. 


Section 654: Construction of Stairs. All openings to stair 
eases shall be full width of said stair cases. Stairs from balcon- 
ies or galleries shall not communicate with basement or cellar. 
They shall have treads and risers of uniform width and height 
throughout. In no case shall the rise of any stairs exceed seven 
and one-half (714) inches in height, nor shall the treads inclusive 
of nosings, be less than ten and one-half (1014) inches wide. 
No circular or winding stairs for the use of the public shall be 
permitted. When straight stairs return directly on themselves, a 
landing of full width of above flights without any steps shall 
be provided. The outline of the landing shall be curved to a 
radius of not less than two (2) feet to avoid angles. In stairs 
when two flights connect with one main flight, the width of the 


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main flight shall be at least equal to the aggregate width of the 
side flights. All enclosed stair cases shall have on both sides 
strong hand rails firmly secured to the wall, and if the stair case 
is ten (10) feet or more in width, a center ‘hand rail shall be 
provided. Hand rails may be of metal or wood, but shall not 
be less than two (2) inches in diameter. 

When the seating capacity is 50 persons or less, stairs must be 
at least four (4) feet wide between railings, and for every in- 
erease of capacity by 50 persons, six (6) inches must be added 
to width of stairs. Where the seating capacity is 300 persons 
or more, two sets of stair cases shall be provided on opposite 
sides of the gallery if there be one. 


Section 655: Necessity for Frontage—Exits—How Cons- 
tructed. All buildings referred to in Section 677 of this ord- 
inance shall have at least one frontage on a street and shall have 
at least two street exits, each of which shall be at least five (5) 
feet wide. In every such building in addition to the exits in 
the front of the building there shall be one exit in the rear of 
the building when the seating capacity is 300 persons or less, 
and when the seating capacity is more than 300 persons and 
less than 500 persons, two exits shall be provided, one of which 
shall be in the rear of the building, and the other in the side 
near the rear of the auditorium. When the seating capacity is 
more than 500 persons, three exits shall be provided leading 
from at least three (3) sides of the building including the front. 

Each exit shall be not less than five (5) feet in width and all 
exits must open into the public streets, public or private alleys, 
or into passage ways at least five (5) feet wide and communicat- 
ing directly with the street. 

Door ways and passageways of exit for use of the public shall 
not be less than five (5) feet in width and for every increase 
of seating capacity by 100 persons in excess of 600 an aggregate 
of twenty (20) inches additional exit width shall be allowed. 

All doors of exits or entrances shall open outwardly and shall 
not be fastened when the building is occupied by the public. 

Every exit shall have of the same, in the inside, the word’ 
‘“EXIT”’’ painted in legible letters not less than six (6) inches 
high; over each exit there shall also be a red light, burning gas 
taken from the street supply mains, and said light must be kept 


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burning at all times while there is an audience present. All 
courts and passageways shall be hghted during the perform- 
ances. 

A common place of exit and entrance may serve for the main 
floor of the auditorium and the first gallery, provided its capae- 
ity be equal to the aggregate capacity of the outlets from the 
main fioor and from the said gallery. 


Section 656: Interiors to be Metal Lined or Metal Lathed. 
All buildings referred to in Section 651 of this ordinance and 
hereafter constructed shall have their interior entirely lined ~ 
throughout with sheet metal or be metal lathed and plastered. 
Brick, tile or conerete walls need not be lathed or plastered. 


Section 657: Construction of Aisles. All aisles in the audi- 
torium having seats on both sides of the same shall be not less 
than three and one-half (314) feet wide when the aisles are sixty 
(60) feet or less in length, and not less than four (4) feet when 
the aisles are more than sixty (60) feet in length. Aisles having 
seats on one side only shall be not less than two and one-half 
(214) feet in width when the aisles are sixty (60) feet or less 
in length, and not less than three (3) feet in width when the 
aisles are more than sixty (60) feet in length. 

Aisles shall extend the entire length of the auditorium to each 
and every exit opening into said street, alleys or passage ways, 
and cross aisles leading to said exits shall extend from center 
aisle to said exits. 


Section 658: Relative to Seats. All seats in the auditorium 
shall not be less than thirty-two (32) inches from back to back, 
measured in a horizontal direction, and firmly secured to the 
floor. No seat in the auditorium shall have more than seven (7) 
seats intervening between it and an aisle. There shall be a space 
of at least ten (10) feet between the front tier of seats and the 
sereen or stage. 


Section 659: Obstruction to Aisles or Exits. It shall be un- 
lawful for any person to place or maintain any chair, stool or 
other obstruction whatever in any aisle in, or in any passageway, 
exit or doorway leading to or from any theater, opera house or 
moving picture show while occupied by the public, or to admit 
to, or cause or permit any person to be or remain in any aisle 


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or passageway, except the necessary ushers and other attendants, 
whose services are required in and about the conducting of such 
exhibition or entertainment. 


Section 660: Fire Protection—Water Supply. All such places 
of amusement having a seating capacity of four hundred (400) 
or more persons shall be equipped with at least one and one-half 
(144) inch galvanized iron stand-pipe in the middle of one side 
wall of the auditorium. Said stand-pipe shall have a one and 
one-half (11%) inch direct connection with the street main. At- 
tached to said stand-pipe there shall be fifty (50) feet on one 
and one-half (114) inch hose, and at the end of such hose there 
shall be of 5-8 inch play pipe. The said fire hose shall be ready 
for service at all times. 


Section 661: Construction of Moving Picture Operator’s Box. 
The following form of construction of the operator’s booth for 
moving picture shows is hereby required: Booth to be at least 
six (6) feet, six (6) inches high, the floor space to vary accord- 
ing to the number of machines in the booth as follows: One 
picture machine—6in.x6in. one picture machine and -one stereop- 
ticon—9in.x6in. Two picture machines and one stereopticon—- 
12in.x6in. 

Sheathing walls and ceiling to be of well seasoned non-resin- 
ous wood at least three-fourths (34) inch thick, all joints as 
closely fitted as possible, tongue and groove preferred. Inside 
. of room must present flat surfaces, all studding, braces, ete., to 
be on outside. 

Lining to be of either No. 28 B. & S. gauge galvanized sheet iron 
or tin of equal thickness so applied that during exposure to fire 
it will present the greatest possible resistence to bulging or open- 
ing up at the seams, and care should be taken to have sheets as 
flat against wood as possible, in order to avoid air spaces. Joints 
to be locked one-half inch and nailed under seams. Nails to be 
not more than five (5) inches apart. Care must be taken to pro- 
vide the full one-half (14) inch lock to place nails in the center 
of the joint so that they may not be easily torn out through the 
edges of the plates by strains due to bulging when exposed to 
fire. No solder to be used in joints. Tf tin is used the plates must 
be 14x20 inches in size. , 


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Floor to be covered in the same manner and with the same 
material as the rest of the enclosure. 

Door to be 2x6 and inside lined in the same manner and with 
the same material as the rest of the enclosure. The lining must 
extend around the edges of and be fastened to outside of door. 
Door shall open out and be arranged to close automatically either 
by means of a heavy spring or by a metal rope and weight at- 
tachment on inside of both. <A stop at least one-half (44) imch 
wide shall be provided on all four sides for door to close against. 

The outside of the booth (in auditorium) must be constructed 
of the same material as the auditorium. 

All openings in the operator’s booth shall be provided with fire 
proof vertical shutters, which when closed shall overlap window 
opening at least one (1) inch on all sides, and shall be made 
of No. 14 B. & S. gauge sheet iron, arranged to slide freely in 
grooves made of No. 14 B. & S. gauge sheet iron fastened on 
inside of booth. Shutters shall be held open by a fine combus- 
tible cord. 

Section 662: Rules of Board of Police and Fire Commissioners. 
In addition to the rules and regulations herein laid down the 
Board of Police and Fire Commissioners of the City of Alameda 
is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce from time to time 
such additional rules and regulations as in its judgment may 
be necessary, and the violation of any such rules and regula- 
tions is hereby declared to be unlawful. 

Section 663: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any - 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


Article 3—MATTERS RELATING TO PLUMBING. 


Section 664: Necessity for Master and Journeymen Plumbers 
to Register. On and after the passage of this ordinance every 
person, firm or corporation who shall do business in the city of 
Alameda as a master plumber, and every person who shall work 
at the trade of a journeyman plumber, shall register his or its 
name and address at the office of the Board of Health of said 
eity, and it shall be unlawful for any such master plumber to 
engage in such business, or for any such journeyman plumber to 
work at said trade in the City of Alameda without such regis- 


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tration and without first obtaining the certificate hereinafter 
referred to from said Board of Health. 


Section 665: Master and Journeyman Plumber Defined. A 
master plumber shall be deemed to be, any person, firm or cor- 
poration who shall engage in the business of plumbing; and a 
journeyman shall be deemed to be, any person who shall work 
at the trade of plumbing. 

After such person, or such firm or corporation, by its duly 
authorized representative, shall have passed an examination be- 
fore the said Board of Health or committee thereof, which shall 
be satisfactory to said Board or Committee, as to his or its quali- 
fications to conduct a plumbing business as a master plumber 
or to work at the trade of journeyman plumber, a certificate 
shall be issued to such person, showing the fact of such examina- 
tion. 


Section 666: Master Plumber’s Qualifications. No person 
shall receive a certificate as a master plumber who has not at- 
tained the age of twenty-one years, or who has no established 
place of business in the City of Alameda. 


Section 667: Expiration of Certificates—Registration. All 
certificates granted hereunder shall expire on the first day of 
July of each year, unless sooner revoked and a renewal thereof 
and a re-registration shall be required, under the condition herein 
laid down, before the person, firm or corporation concerned, shall 
be authorized to continue in such plumbing business or work at 
said trade. 


Section 668: Bonds Required of Master Plumber. Every 
master plumber doing business in the City of Alameda shall file 
a bond in the penal sum of Five Hundred (500) Dollars, payable 
to the City of Alameda, with two good and sufficient surities, 
or with the surety of a duly qualified surety company, for the 
faithful discharge of his or its duties as a master plumber in 
accordance with the laws and the ordinances of the City of Ala- 
meda relating thereto, which said bond shall be subject to the 
approval of the Board of Health of said city, and shall be filed 
in the office of said Board. 


Section 669: Plumbing Inspector to be Notified of Plumbing 
Work—Fees for Permit and Inspection. Before commencing the 


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construction or installation of plumbing or drainage work in 
any building or in any addition to, repair of, or reconstruction of 
any building, or in any building which shall have been moved in 
the City of Alameda, the master plumber by whom the said work 
is to be performed, or construction or installation to be made, 
shall cause plans and specifications thereof to be filed im the office 
of the Board of Health of said city and shall thereafter notify 
the Plumbing Inspector in writing when said work is ready for 
inspection. And it shall be unlawful for any master plumber to 
commence any of the work mentioned in this section without 
first filing plans and specifications as herein provided, or without 
procuring the approval of said Plumbing Inspector to said plans 
and specifications, or completing any such work without the 
inspection and approval of said Plumbing Inspector, first had and 
obtained. 

For receiving and filing the plans and specifications above 
mentioned and for the inspection herein required, when the work 
is to be done in a new building, or when the same comprises the 
installation of two or more fixtures, a fee of Three (3) Dollars 
shall be charged, and shall be paid upon the filing of said plans 
and specifications, to the Plumbing Inspector for the use of the 
health fund of said city. 

The requirements of this section shall not be construed to 
include leaks, repairing faucets, breaks in pipes, or stoppage in 
pipes. 

When any plumbing work for which inspection is required 
by the provisions of this ordinance, is roughed in, and before the 
same shall be covered or closed, it shall be the duty of the master 
plumber, in charge of said work, to notify the Plumbing Inspee- 
tor, who shall thereupon inspect said work, and if the same has 
been performed in accordance with the provisions of the Ord- 
inance of the City of Alameda, applicable thereto, he shall issue 
his certificate of first inspection and no plumbing work shall be | 
closed or covered up until ‘such certificate of first inspection has 
been issued. 


Section 670: Certificate of Final Inspection. Upon the final 
completion of said plumbing work, it shall be the duty of the 
master plumber, having the same in charge, to again notify the 
Plumbing Inspector of such fact, and thereupon said Plumbing 


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Inspector shall make final inspection of said plumbing work, and 
if the same has been performed in accordance with the ordinances 
of said city, he shall issue a certificate of final inspection of said 
work. 


Section 671: Revocation of Certificate as Penalty for Violation 
of Ordinance. In addition to the penalties prescribed by this 
article any plumber to whom a certificate has been issued, under 
the provisions of this ordinance, who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this article, shall be liable to a revocation of said 
certificate by the Board of Health of said city after a hearing 
upon at least five days’ written notice to said plumber. 


Section 672: Necessity for Work to Conform to Rules. All 
plumbing and drainage hereafter constructed or installed in the 
City of Alameda, shall be in accordance with the regulations 
prescribed in this ordinance. 


Section 673: Quality of Material. All material must be of 
good quality and free from defect; all defective material shall 
be removed and sound material shall be put in its place, and all 
work must be executed in a thorough and workmanlike manner. 


Section 674: Arrangement of Soil and Waste Pipes. The ar- 
rangement of soil and waste pipes must be as direct as possible. 
The soil, and waste pipes, and traps, where convenient should 
be exposed to view for ready inspection at all times and for 
convenience in repairing. 


Section 675: Soil and Waste Pipes and Connections. Every 
soil pipe shall be of cast iron or galvanized wrought iron; waste 
pipes must be of cast iron, galvanized wrought iron or lead. 

All cast iron pipe fittings for waste and_ soil pipes 
must be coated both inside and out with asphalt’ or 
coal tar, pitch or some toehr' similar substance appled 
hot, subject to the approval of the Plumbing Inspector. 

When wrought iron is used for vent pipes it must be galvanized. 

All soil and waste pipes shall connect with the house sewer 
at a point below the surface of the ground and shall be properly 
cemented thereto. 


Section 676: Cast Iron Soil or Sewer Pipe Under Ground. 
Where a cast iron sewer, soil or waste pipe and fittings are laid 


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in the ground under any building they must be of extra heavy 
iron. 


Section 677: Waste Pipes to Discharge Into House Sewer. 
All waste pipes must discharge directly into the house sewer, 
excepting where a waste pipe is not more than four (4) feet in 
length measured from the seal of the trap to the connection with 
the house sewer it may discharge into a trap and cowell at the 
surface of the ground and on the outside of the building. The 
vent pipe of all fixtures must be within thirty (30) inches of 
the seal of the trap, and when said vent pipe exceeds this dis- 
tance from the seal of the trap, a return vent in all cases must 
be provided. 


Section 678: Testing of Pipes. All iron, soil, or waste pipes, 
before being covered up, must have openings stopped and be 
filed with water and allowed to stand until inspected and ap- 
proved by the Plumbing inspector. All connections of lead with 
cast iron pipe must be made with a brass ferule of the same size 
as the lead pipe and calked into the iron pipe and connected to 
the lead pipe by a wiped joint. All connections of lead pipe must 
be of wiped joints except that Raymond or Nation bends and 
sleeves may be used. 


section 679: Fittings and Waste Pipes. When galvanized 
wrought iron pipe is used for sewer, soil or waste pipes, it must 
be of the quality known as standard steam thickness, and all 
changes in direction shall be made with Y’s 1-16, 1-6 or 1-8 
fittings, said fittings to be threaded on the inside and so con- 
structed as to form a uniform bore with the pipe, without burrs 
or recesses. 

When under architectural conditions the space is unlimited, 
double T Y’s will not be allowed to serve two (2) fixtures. 

When under architectural conditions it is not practical to use 
other than double T Y’s, (and then only on vertical lines of pipe) 
or to comply strictly with this rule then the work must comply 
as nearly as possible with the provisions of this section. 

Section 680: Vent Pipes of Fixtures. In all houses hereafter 
constructed or altered and in all additions hereafter made to. old 
buildings, the vent pipes of all fixtures which are to discharge 
directly into the house sewer must extend two (2) feet above the 
main plate, fire wall, roof, windows or openings in the roof. 


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Section 681: The Sizes of Vent Pipes When Vent Pipes of a 
Number of Small Fixtures Unite in One Vent. Small fixtures 
as mentioned herein means baths, basins, sinks, wash trays, and 
urinals. When the vent pipes of four, or more small fixtures 
unite, then the size of the vent pipe above the union of the high- 
est fixture, shall not be less than two (2) inches in diameter, 
inside measurement. 


Section 682: Distance of Vent Pipes From Openings. When 
it is not practicable to extend the vent pipes of fixtures above 
the main plate, fire wall, windows or openings in roof, then they 
shall be extended to a point not less than ten (10) feet away from 
any openings in the building in which they are located and from 
the windows, doors or openings of any adjoining building. 


Section 683: Slop Hoppers and Vents. When hoppers are 
constructed or placed in a building the waste pipes and traps 
must be not less than two (2) inches in diameter, inside meas- 
urement. The vent pipes thereof may be one and one-half (1144) 
inches in diameter, inside measurement. 


Section 684: Removal of Old Sewers. When a new building 
or an addition to an old building is constructed over an old 
earthen house sewer, said house sewer must be removed and 
replaced with cast iron pipe of the required size, where it is to 
be laid under the building or earthen sewer pipe may be laid 
around the building outside the foundation thereof. 


Section 685: Two Buildings Upon One Lot. Where there is a 
building on the front of a lot and there is to be an additional 
building constructed in the rear of the same lot, then one sewer 
may serve both buildings. The same shall apply also where the 
conditions are reversed, or two buildings are constructed at the 
same time. 


Section 686: Surface Drains. All surface drains, soils, or 
waste pipes discharging below the eround line of any building, 
must be connected with the house sewer in a manner satisfactory 
to the Plumbing Inspector. 


Section 687: Safe Wastes. Every safe under a basin, bath, 
urinal, tank, or other fixture, must be drained by a special pipe 
one inch or larger in diameter, of galvanized wrought iron, or 


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lead pipe and must in no case be connected with any soil, waste 
pipe, drain, or sewer, but must be made to discharge outside of 
the building. 


Section 688: Retrigerators, Ice Boxes, Etc. Refrigerators, ice 
boxes and water filters shall in no case be directly connected with 
or to the drainage system, but they may be indirectly connected, 
providing the means of connection is approved by the Plumbing 
Inspector. 


Section 689: Dentists’ Cuspidors—How Placed. ‘The traps, 
waste and vent pipes of all Dentists’ cuspidors that connect with 
plumbing systems must have traps, waste and vent pipes of at 
least 114 inches in diameter, inside measurement. 


Section 690: Minimum Plumbing Service in Tenements, Flats 
and Stores. Each tenement, or flat, or store hereafter erected in 
the City of Alameda must be provided with not less than one 
water closet and one sink. 


Section 691: Urinals. Urinals must be either of enameled 
iron or porcelain. 


Section 692: Unsanitary Condition of Buildings. When the 
plumbing in any building has been inspected and found to be in 
an unsanitary condition and condemned by the Board of Health, 
the owner, occupant, or agent must correct such condition to 
comply with the plumbing rules, and to the satisfaction of the 
Board of Health, within forty-eight (48) hours after being 
notified to do so. | 


Section 693: Vent Pipes of Water Closets. The vent pipes 
of all water closets that are located on the second, (2nd) third 
(3rd) or high floors of any building must be four (4) inches in 
diameter inside measurement. All water closet vent pipes, and 
the vent pipes of all fixtures that are in the same room with a 
water closet, must extend two feet above the roof, fire wall, 
main plate, windows, or openings in roof. 


Section 694: Return Vents. All return vents from any fixture 
or fixtures when uniting with the vent pipes of any other fixture 
must unite at a point above the highest fixture. No rubber con- 
nections shall be allowed between water closets and vent pipes. 
When the vent pipe of a water closet is placed more than thirty 


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inches from the seal of the trap, a return vent two (2) inches 
in diameter must in all cases be provided. 


Section 695: Water Closets Located in Yards. When a water 
closet is located within ten feet of a dwelling, the vent pipe shall 
extend two feet above the fire wall roof, main plate, windows, 
or openings in roof, but when a water closet is located beyond 
this distance no vent is required. 


Section 696: Connections of House Sewers With Main Sewers. 
When there is a sewer in the street every house or building except 
as otherwise permitted hereby, must be separately and independ- 
ently connected with it. When possible such connections must be 
made directly in front of the house. When there is no sewer in 
the street, and it is necessary to construct a private sewer to 
eonnect with the main sewer in an adjacent street, alley or ave- 
nue, it must be laid in the street on which the lot fronts and not 
through the yards or under any hourse or houses. Drain sewers 
must have a fall of at least one-quarter (14) of an inch to the 
foot; it must run along the cellar wall where practicable or if 
laid under the lower floor of a building must be hung in heavy 
iron straps securely fastened to the fioor joists. When it is not 
practicable to run and fasten the iron sewer, drain, soil, or waste 
pipes as above directed, then they may be run in a trench cut to 
a uniform grade. It must be laid in as straight a line as possible. 
All changes in direction must be made with curved fittings and Y 
branches. No brick, sheet metal or earthen-ware flue shall be 
used as a sewer ventilator, nor shall any chimney flue be used 
for this purpose. All house sewers shall be constructed of vitri- 
fied iron stone pipe not less than four (4) inches in inside diam- 
eter, where the same are located outside of the foundation of a 
building and shall have a fall of not less than one-fourth (14) 
inch to the foot. All such sewers shall have a running trap 
placed inside of the property line and shall be provided with 
a fresh air inlet on the house side of the water seal, at least 
four (4) inches in diameter and carried to the surface of the 
ground. <All connections of water-closets with house sewers 
must be at least four (4) inches in inside diameter. 


Section 697: Vent Cowells to be Furnished. It shall be the 
duty of the Sewer Contractor or the person laying the house 
sewer to provide a cast iron cap or fitting known as a four (4) 


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inch Vent Cowell to be placed over the fresh air inlet to the 
running trap, provided for in this ordinance and to extend at 
least six (6) inches above the surface of the ground. 


Section 698: Sizes of Waste Pipes of Baths, Basins, Wash 
Trays, Sinks, Urinals or Any Small Fixture or Vessels. All traps, 
vents and waste pipes of baths, sinks, wash trays, urinals and 
any small vessel, must not be less than 144 inches in diameter 
inside measurement. All traps must have at least two (2) inches 
of water seal. The trap of a basin may be 114 inches in diameter, 
the waste vent pipe thereof must be 114 inches in diameter. 


Section 699: Waste Pipes Defined. The term waste pipe as 
herein used applies to any pipe receiving the discharge of any 
fixture except water closets. 


Section 700: Soil Pipes Defined. The term ‘‘soil pipes’’ as 
herein used apples to any pipe receiving the discharge from 
one or more water closets. 


Section 701: When a Washtray and Sink abut. When a sink 
and a wash-tray abut one another and they are practically one 
fixture, and are in the same room, then they, or it, may be 
served by one trap. 

Section 702: Bell Traps. Bell traps prohibited in all cases. 

Section 703: Urinal and Water Closet Floor Drains. Urinal 
and water closet floor drains may be connected to and with soil 
or sewer pipes, provided said floor drain is properly trapped and 
vented, and said trap properly supplied with water. Said trap 
and vent pipe must not be less than two (2) inches in diameter 
inside measurement. 


Section 704: Waste Pipes of Three or More Fixtures. A waste 
pipe, either vertical or horizontal receiving the discharge of three 
(3) or more fixtures, shall not be less than two (2) inches in 
‘diameter. 


Section 705: Architectural Conditions Preventing Full Com- 
pliance. Where by architectural conditions, it is not practicable 
to comply with these rules and venting has to be done under the 
floor, and available space is limited, then all rules shall be com- 
plied with as nearly as possible. 


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Section 706: Traps Protected. All traps must be protected 
from syphonage by special air pipes of lead, cast iron, or gal- 
vanized wrought iron, except herein otherwise provided. 


Section 707: Water Closets. When but one water closet is 
constructed on the first floor of any building and none is con- 
structed in the basement, thereof, or when but one water closet 
is constructed in the basement of any building and none is con- 
structed on the first floor thereof, the vent pipe of said water 
closet, shall be not less than three (3) inches in diameter, inside 
measurement. When two or more closets are constructed in any 
building in the basement or on the first floor or in or on both, the 
vent of one of said water closets shall be at least three (3) inches 
in diameter, inside measurement, and the vent pipe of the other 
or others of said water closets shall be at least two (2) inches 
in diameter, inside measurement. 


Section 708: How Vent Pipes to Be Run. All vent or air 
pipes shall be run with as few bends as possible, and diverting 
from a vertical line must be made with one-eighth (1%) bends, 
and when the vent pipe of one fixture unites with the vent pipe 
of another fixture, the union must be made with Y’s and one- 
eighth (14) bends. 


Section 709: Rain Water Leaders. Rain water leaders must 
not be used as soil, waste, or vent pipes, nor shall any soil, waste 
or vent pipe be used as a rain water leader. All leaders from 
roofs must discharge on the surface of the ground, or be carried 
to the gutters in the street by separate pipes. 


section 710: Cellar Drains. No opening shall be provided in 
the sewer pipe of any building for the purpose. of receiving the 
surface drainage of the cellar unless special permission is granted 
by the Board of Health; and any opening so made must be im- 
mediately closed when directed by the Board of Health. Said 
cellar drainage shall be made with 3-inch cast iron pipe with 
3-inch trap with brass screw plug and ferrule calked into said 
trap. 


Section 711: Water Closets. No person shall place any plug, 
pan or hopper closet in any building or any outhouse in the City 
of Alameda, and no person, owning, controlling or occupying any 


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property in said city shall permit any plug, pan or hopper closet 
to be so placed. 


section 712: Testing of Plumbing System. The testing of a 
plumbing system must be made in the presence of the Plumbing 
Inspector, and if the test proves satisfactory to him, he-shall issue 
a proper certificate. In all cases notice must be given the Plumb- 
ing Inspector when the work is sufficiently advanced for in- 
spection. | 


Section 713: Drains on Decks, Light Wells, Etc. All deck 
or hghtwell drains must be properly trapped and vented and 
be suitably supplied with water from the nearest suitable fixtures, 
said trap and vent must not be less than two (2) inches in diam- 
eter, inside measurement, and placed as near the deck as possible. 
Where the deck or light well is of such an area, that a drain 
pipe of two (2) inches in diameter is considered insufficient to 
earry off the storm water, then the size of same must be increased 
to three (3) inches in diameter, the vent pipe in such cases may 
be two (2) inches in diameter. 


Section 714: Joints of Cast Iron. All joints on east iron pipe 
and fittings to same must be made with suitable packing of 
oakum, properly calked, and run full with molten lead calked. 

Section 715: Kxtra Heavy Cast Iron Pipe. In every building 
hereafter erected in the City of Alameda of four stories or more 
in height, what is known to the trade as ‘‘Extra Heavy Pipe’’ 
must be used for sewer, soil, and waste pipes, and the fittings 
of same shall also be ‘‘Extra Heavy Cast Iron.’’ The vent pipes 
in such cases may be of standard weight, or galvanized wrought 
iron pipe may be used instead of ‘‘Extra Heavy Cast Iron.”’ 


Section 716: Misdemeanor. <Any person, firm, or corporation 
violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed 
cuilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 4—ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND THEIR INSTAL- 
LATION. 


Section 717: Necessity for Electrical Work to Conform to 
Ordinance and Rules. All electrical construction, all material 
and all appliances used in connection with electrical work and 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 201 


the operation of all electrical apparatus in buildings in the City 
of Alameda, shall be of the best material and in conformity with 
the rules and regulations set forth in this article, together with 
such rules and regulations as may, from time to time, be adopted 
by the Board of Electricity of said City. 


Section 718: Electrical Constructors to Register for Certificate. 
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in conducting the 
business of placing, installing or operating electrical wires, ap- 
pliances, apparatus, or construction, in or on buildings in the 
City of Alameda, shall appear in person or by duly authorized 
representative at the office of the Board of Electricity and shall 
there register his name and place of business in said city, which 
act, upon being sworn, shall entitle him to a certificate of regis- 
tration; provided, however, that no certificate of registration 
shall be granted for a period of more than one fiscal year, or 
the unexpired portion thereof. 


Section 719: Necessity for Constructor to Obtain Certificate. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to en- 
gage in conducting the business of placing, installing or operat- 
ing electrical wires, appliances, apparatus or construction in 
or on buildings in the city without first obtaining a certificate 
of registration from the Board of Electricity, and said certifi- 
cate must be renewed as provided for in Section 718 of this 
Article, within thirty (30) days after the first day of July of 
each fiscal year. 


Section 7204 Inspection of Electric Power or Light and Power 
Plants. Any person, firm or corporation or agent thereof, own- 
ing, operating or in possession of any electric power or electric 
hght and power plant, or any person, firm or corporation, or 
agent thereof, owning or in possession of any building or other 
structure within the City of Alameda, shall permit an Inspector 
authorized by the City of Alameda so to do, to enter and inspect 
such plant or premises once in every three months or oftener if 
deemed necessary by the Superintendent of the Department of 
Electricity, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the electri- 
cal wires, appliances, apparatus, construction or equipment in 
or about said plant, building or other structure are in conformity 
with the provisions of this Article, and it shall be unlawful for 


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any occupant or owner of premises where electrical wires, ap- 
pliances, apparatus, construction or equipment are used or are 
to be used, or any person whatever, to prevent or interfere with 
any inspector in the discharge of his duties, under this Article; 
provided, however, that said inspector shall upon ‘the request 
of the owner or occupant of said premises, exhibit his authority 
to make such inspection. If the Superintendent of the Depart- 
ment of Electricity or any of his duly authorized inspectors shall 
find any part of an electrical equipment in or about any building 
in the City of Alameda to be dangerous to life or property, 
the said Superintendent of the Department of Electricity or In- 
spector shall have the right and power to disconnect such elec- 
trical equipment from its source of supply, and it shall be the 
duty of the Superintendent of Department of Electricity to 
notify the owner, tenant or occupant of the building or of such 
electrical equipment in writing, designating the equipment so 
disconnected, to have the defects in said equipment repaired 
within a reasonable time, not exceeding ten (10) days, from 
date of notice, and not to use electric current in such dangerous 
equipment until the same is repaired and made safe to the satis- 
faction of the Superintendent of the Department of Electricity. 
The Superintendent of the Department of Electricity shall also 
be authorized to give written notice to any person, firm or cor- 
poration furnishing electric current to any dangerous equipment 
to cease to supply current to any such dangerous equipment 
until defects are repaired and such person; firm or corporation 
is notified to connect same. Any person, firm or corporation 
failing or refusing to comply with any notice from the Super- 
*intendent of the Department of Electricity given under pro- 
visions of this section shall be guilty of a violation of this Ar- 
ticle and punishable accordingly. 


Section 721: Necessity to Obtain Permit for Electrical Work. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place 
‘or install in any building, any wiring, apparatus or fixtures, 
for the use of electricity or to make any alteration or change 
in or additions to any wiring, apparatus or fixtures for such use 
without first filing an application with the Board of Electricity 
in writing, with diagram of the wiring which must show the 
number of lights marked at each outlet, wire sizes and distances, 


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location of all switches and tablet or switchboards, and as nearly 
as possible the manner in which all wires are to be installed, 
and obtain a written permit to do such work. Such permit shall 
state the kind of work to be done and shall cover only the kind 
of work so designated. Said permit shall also state the location 
by street and number of the building where such work is to be 
done, and shall be valid only for the location so stated. 


Section 722: Application for Inspection. When any electrical 
installation is ready for inspection an application for inspection 
thereof must be made on blanks furnished by the Board of Elec- 
tricity and must be filed in the office of said Board. This ap- 
plication blank must be filled out in full, giving permit number, 
name of owner and electrical contractor and location by street 
and number of work to be inspected. Upon receipt of said ap- 
plication of inspection it shall be the duty of the Superintendent 
of the Department of Hlectricity to cause same to be inspected, 
and if found to conform to the rules and regulations provided 
by this Article, the Superintendent of the Department of Elee- 
tricity shall issue a final certificate of Inspection, certifying 
that such wiring, apparatus or fixtures have been inspected and 
found to comply with the terms of this Article, but no such 
certificate shall be granted until such equipment is made to 
conform to said rules and regulations prescribed herein. 


Section 723: Not to Use Electric Current Before Inspection 
Certificate Issued. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or 
corporation to use any electric current in or through any wiring, 
apparatus or fixtures in any building until the same shall] have 
been inspected and approved by the Superintendent of the De- 
partment of Hlectricity and the certificate hereinbefore provided 
for shall have been issued therefor. It shall be unlawful for any 
person, firm or corporation furnishing electric current for light, 
heat or power to connect with their or its distributing system 
with any installation of wiring, apparatus or fixtures in any build- 
ing before said certificate shall have been issued therefor. The 
Superintendent of the Department of Electricity may also, before 
such certificate is issued, give temporary permission to furnish 
or use electric current through any wiring, apparatus or fixtures, 
for a period not exceeding 30 days if in his opinion such wiring, 
apparatus or fixtures are in such condition that current may 


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safely be used therein, and there exists an urgent necessity for 
such use. No certificate will be issued on any work unless the 
whole thereof has been duly inspected nor shall current be used 
in any such work. 


Section 724: Additions or Changes After Inspection. When 
any addition or change is made in work upon which a certificate 
has been issued a separate inspection shall be made for the same 
before use. . 

After having received from the Superintendent of the De- 
partment of Electricity notices of corrections to be made on any 
installation, the person, firm or corporation receiving such notice 
must make such corrections as may be necessary in a reasonable 
time. Corrections on work being concealed must be made at 
once, and such corrections reported, as no certificate will be is- 
sued on work not passed upon. 


Section 725: Use of Old Material for Alterations. Where alter- 
ations or additions are made in old installations, approval for the 
use of any old material must be obtained from the Superintendent 
of the Department of Electricity before same can be used. 

New or additional work shall not be attached to any existing 
installation without written permission from the Superintendent 
of the Department of Electricity. 


Section 726: Fee for Permit. The Board of Electricity shall 
charge and collect from the person, firm or corporation, to whom 
any permit for doing any electrical work is issued, under the 
terms of this Article, a fee of Two ($2) Dollars which shall be 
paid into the electric fund of said City. 

Section 727: Necessity for Inspection Before Lathing or Seal- 
ing—Plumbing Work to be in Place. All plumbing and other 
piping or tube work must be in place on work to be concealed 
before the electric wiring 1s inspected and no such wiring will be 
considered as complete until such piping is in place and a service 
switch and cut-out installed. Upon making an inspection of 
any electrical equipment the inspector shall leave a notice at the 
service switch or other suitable place, stating that the electrical 
work has been inspected by the Superintendent of the Depart- 
ment of Electricity or his inspectors and it shall be unlawful to 
lath, seal or in any manner conceal any electrical wiring or other 
work until the same has been inspected as herein required. 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 205 


Section 728: Rules of Board of Electricity. In addition to the 
rules and regulations which the Board of Electricity is hereby 
authorized to adopt and promulgate for electrical wiring and 
installation, from time to time, the following rules and regula- 
tions are hereby adopted. 

Sub. 1. No system of wiring shall exceed 2 per cent loss with 
maximum amount of current for use of which said system is in- 
stalled. Lamp circuits not to exceed 1 per cent loss, feeders 
and sub-feeders 1 per cent; lamps rated at sixteen candle power. 


Sub. 2. No mains or feeders shall be less than No. 12 Brown 
& Sharp, where not over 4 branch circuits are supplied. 


Sub. 3. Switches and weatherproof sockets will be required 
in bathrooms, laundries and over all washstands, and sinks on 
porches, in basements, outdoors and other damp places. Every 
service switch must have a carrying capacity of at least 25 am- 
peres. 

Sub. 4. In wiring old houses necessary provisions for hanging 
fixtures must be made. Connecting of fixture wires to outlet wire 
must be done below the ceiling. 


Sub. 5. In general a distance of five inches should be main- 
tained between wires in concealed work. Where five inches can- 
not be maintained wires shall be protected by flexible conduit or 
loom. At switch outlets and tablet boards where five inches 
cannot be maintained, a minimum distance of two and one-half 
inches will be allowed. When crossing or paralleling other wires, 
pipes of other conducting material, unless wires are protected 
by bushing or flexible conduit, a distance of two and one-half 
inches must be maintained. When wires are supported on ‘‘trees’’ 
at such crossing, trees should be placed close to each crossing. 
Where wires cross over one another they should be protected 
by six-inch bushing securely taped to wire. 

Sub. 6. Where possible, at all switch or fixture outlets, a %- 
inch block must be fastened between studs or floor timbers, flush 
with the back of lathing to hold tubes, and to support switches 
or fixtures. Where this cannot be done, wooden base blocks not 
less than %4-inch in thickness, securely screwed to the lathing, 
shall be provided for switches, and also for fixtures which are 
not attached to gas pipes or conduit. 


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At gas outlets the conduit, (iron or flexible) must be at least 
1-inch from pipe, and extend at least flush with outer end of 
pipe. 

Sub. 7. Flexible or lamp cord will not be allowed on walls 
or ceilings, or where standard method of wiring can be employed. 
Cord drops must not hang nearer than five feet from the floor. If 
portables are needed they must be provided with lamp guards. 

Lamp cord ends must be eye-looped and taped in sockets and 
fuseless rosettes when knot cannot be tied on cord. 

Where cords are hung close to gas fixture or where cord can 
be hung on same, insulating joints must be put on fixtures at 
ceiling. 

Sub. 8. Capping must be serewed on moulding so that in- 
spector can remove same without injuring the capping; moulding 
must be painted with some waterproof material and not installed 
until paint is thoroughly dry. The use of nails or staples to hold 
wire in moulding will not be approved. 

Sub. 9. All joints must be soldered and at least two layers 
of tape (of both rubber and friction and a coating of insulating 
paint) will be required. 

Sub. 10. The wires must be used as much as possible and 
put on in such manner as not to break the insulation upon the 
wires. 

Sub. 11. In plaster partitions at floor plates and braces extra 
bushings must be used to prevent accumulation of plaster on the 
wires. Bushings to be taped to regular bushings employed. 

Sub. 12. Conduits must be at least as strong as the ordinary 
commercial forms of gas pipe of the same size, and its thickness 
must not be less than that of standard gas pipe. Plain iron or 
steel pipe of thickness and strength as stated above may be used 
as conduit, provided that the interior surfaces are smooth and 
free from burrs. 

All metal conduit, armored cable, and metal moulding regard- 
less of length must be permanently and effectually grounded. 
The ground wire to be made as short as possible and soldered into 
approved ground clamps; the wire and clamps if necessary may 
be concealed, In case conduit is grounded to gas pipes, there 
must be a good electrical connection made around gas meter 
by a suitable bond wire. 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 207 


The ground wire to be at least of the following size: 
Por Y-inch conduit or cable, No. 8 B. & 8. gage; 

For 84-inch conduit or cable, No. 8 B. & 8. gage; 

For l-inch conduit or cable, No. 6 B. & §. gage; 

For 14-inch conduit or cable, No. 6 B. & 8. gage ; 

For 144-inch conduit or cable, 2 No. 6 B. & 8. gage; 
Por 2-inch conduit or cable, 2 No. 6 B. & S. gage. 

A separate clamp must be provided for each No. 6 wire. 


In order to prevent oxidization the pipe must be galvanized, 
or the interior surfaces coated or enameled with some substance 
which will not soften so as to become sticky and prevent the 
wire from being withdrawn from the pipe. All elbows or bends 
must be so made that the conduit will not be Injured. 


Sub. 13. Signs exposed to weather must have all receptacles 
of an approved type. Receptacles must be protected from weather 
as in covered letter signs, or weatherproof sockets must be used. 
All receptacles with plug connections must be soldered to wire. 

Current on any lamp circuit for sign work shall not exceed 25 
amperes on two-wire 100 volt system, 1214 amperes on each side of 
a three-wire system. Switches controlling any sign must discon- 
nect all wires. Switches controlling any lamp cireuit in sign 
must disconnect all wires of the circuit. 


Sub. 14. Every gas outlet pipe must be protected above the 
insulating joint by approved insulating tubing, to prevent wires 
In any manner from coming in contact with grounded part of 
insulating joint and pipe. Only fixtures having sliding canopies 
with set screws will be approved. No canopy of less than three- 
quarters of an inch in depth or one and one-half inches in width 
shall be used, unless an outlet box is used. This must be a tight 
box, but may be made of galvanized iron, into which the ends of 
the flexible tubing must be brought and secured. 

No white or red lead shall be used on any insulating joint. 

At every outlet where no fixtures are installed, wire ends must 
be tapered and cleared from gas pipe. Complete electric instal- 
lation must test free from grounds or shorts mith magneto at final 
inspection. 

Sub. 15. Main leads must be brought out as near as possible 
to the upper portion of the house and two feet extended outside. 
They must be enclosed in Iron Armoured Conduit, down to the 


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entrance cutout and switch, with a two-foot loop of wire for meter. 
connection. A center of distribution must be located as near the 
center of the building as possible and wire of sufficient size must 
be used to allow for a two per cent drop in voltage, with full 
number of lights. The meter must be located in a dry, accessible 
place, so that it can be read without entering the building. Hlec- 
tric meters to be read and installed without entering building by 
having a door on hinges on outside of building with clasp to keep 
door closed. Also condulet on each end of conduit which will 
be expected on rough inspection. All meter cabinets to be made 
of sound lumber, one inch thick 18x18x12 inches. Must be painted 
before being lined with asbestos. This will be expected on rough 
inspection. 

Sub. 16. Boards for meters must be made of sound lumber 
one inch thick at least and fastened to walls or other supports 
solidly and in a vertical position. A space of about 12 inches by 
12 inches must be allowed for meters, besides space required 
for service cutout, switch and branch blocks, if on board. Where 
two or more services are to be installed in one building, as flats, 
apartment houses, etc., all meters must be placed on one board, 
each meter having a separate service, cut-out and switch, and 
board marked with house or apartment number. 

All switch and cut-out blocks must be mounted on asbestos at 
least 1-16-inch thick. | 

On plastered walls a separate board not less than one (1) ineh 
thick must be placed on which to fasten meter. 

Sub. 17. Each heating device using over 600 watts must be 
protected by cutouts and controlled by indicating switches. These 
cutouts must be placed at the center of distribution and at 
each outlet. This arrangement will necessitate running separate 
pairs of wires from the center of distribution to each outlet, fused 
to normal capacity of heating device as shown on name plate. 


Sub. 18. In wiring motors tables in supplement issued by B. 
O. F. U. of Pacific, 1910, are hereby adopted. 

The table given is to be used only for standard speed motors 
and for installations where motors do not start under full load. 
Sizes of wires, switches, etc., for slow speed motors should be 
larger in proportion as the full-load current of the slow speed 
motor is larger than the value given in the table, for a motor 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 209 


of standard speed. Values given in tables for sizes of wir:, 
switches and fuses are not large enough for motors, which start 
under practically full load, such as motors operating pumps, or 
compressors starting under full pressure, rock crushers, or ma- 
ehinery having heavy fiywheels. 

Where the same feeder supplies several motors the size of this 
feeder may be determined by taking the sum of the full-load ecur- 
rent for all motors, plus 50 per cent of the full-load current for the 
largest motor. 

Auto starters must be provided for all motors of more than 
3-horse power. 


Section 729: Permits and Inspections no Excuse for Damages 
—City Officers not Liable. This article shall not be construed as 
relieving from or lessening the responsibility of any person own- 
ing, operating or installing any electrical wires, appliances, ap- 
paratus, construction or equipment for damages to any building, 
or any person injured by any defect therein; nor shall the city, its 
officers, employees, or any agent thereof, be held liable in dam- 
ages or otherwise by reason of issuance of any permit or of the 
inspection, authorized herein, or the certificate of inspection is- 
sued by the Superintendent of the Department of Electricity or 
otherwise. 


section 730: Misdemeanor. Any’ person, who shall violate 
any of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a 
misdemeanor. 


Article 5—THE ERECTION OF POLES AND HANGINGS OF 
WIRES FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT AND OTHER PUR- 
POSES. 


Section 731: Necessity to Conform to Ordinance. It shall be 
unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company or corporation, 
to erect any electric light, electric motor, telegraph, telephone or 
other poles for the purpose of hanging wires theron for any 
purpose within the corporate limits of Alameda except as here- 
inafter provided. 


Section 732: How Poles are to be Erected. All poles erected 
by any person or persons, firm, corporation or company for the 
purpose of hanging wires thereon, shall be under the direction 


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of the committee on streets of the City Council and all poles 
erected in circuit shall not be a greater distance apart than one 
hundred and fifty feet. 

All poles supporting conducting wires as herein preeaded and 
hereafter to be erected, and any change in location of poles and 
lines now in use, shall for electric light and power purposes 
be constructed on the east and south sides of the streets, 
and for telegraph, telephone, and other purposes on the west 
and north sides of the streets. 


Section 733: How Wires For Various Purposes are to be 
strung. When more than three wires are hung on said poles they 
shall be as follows: 

For electric hght and motor purposes not less than thirty-five 
(35) feet from the ground or street, and for all other purposes 
not less than twenty-five (25) feet, provided that all wires for 
any other purpose than electric light and power shall be hung 
not less than three (3) feet below electric light and power wires, 
and shall be so hung as not to interfere in any manner, or come. 
in contact with said electric ight and power wires, and in cross- 
ing streets to connect with buildings for electric ight and power 
purposes, wires therefor shall be three (3) feet above all other 
wires, and said wires shall be so insulated as to prevent danger 
from fire or other damage. 

No trolley wire in any system using ground return shall be 
smaller than No. 0 B. & S. copper or No. 4 B. & S. Silicon Bronze, 
well insulated from their supports, and in case of double pole con- 
struction the supports shall also be insulated from the poles or 
immediately outside the trolley wires and protected against con- 
taet with other conductors by three (3) guard wires, one above 
and one on each side and parallel with said trolley wires. 

The trolley and feed wires shall be capable of being divided into 
sections so that in case of fire on the railway route the current — 
may be shut off from the particular section and not interfere 
with the work of the firemen in extinguishing the flames. 

All feeders to trolley wires within the fire district shall con- 
nect with said trolley wire at junction of streets or alleys run- 
ning at right angles to the electric railway and not parallel with 
or on same street with said trolley wires. 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 211 


All wires in cars must be run out of reach of passengers and 
insulated with waterproof insulation. 

Light and power wires will not be permitted in the same cir- 
euit with trolley wires having a ground return, except in street 
railway cars, car barns, and power stations. 

No electric hght, power, telegraph, or telephone wires shall 
be placed upon any building within the City of Alameda, except 
where it is necessary to provide light or power or connect tele- 
graph and telephone office with instruments, without consent of 
said Board. 


Section 734: Misdemeanor. Any person or persons, firm, com- 
pany, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this 
article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 6—-THE NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS. 


Section 735: System of Numbering to be Followed. All build- 
ings fronting on the avenues, streets and courts of the City of 
Alameda shall be numbered according to the following system: 

Streets and courts running in a northerly and southerly direc- 
tion shall be numbered from the south toward the north, one num- 
ber being allowed for each 20 feet and Central Avenue shall be 
the basis for numbering said streets and courts. The first number 
northerly of said avenue shall be 1400. 

Avenues and courts running in an easterly and westerly di- 
rection shall be numbered from the west toward the east, one 
number being allowed for each 25 feet. The numbers of said 
avenues shall be so located that there will be 99 numbers west 
of First Street (formerly Main Street) and they shall increase 
in numerical order in an easterly direction, so that the first num- 
ber east of said First Street shall be number 100, and the first 
number east of Second Street shall be number 200, and so on 
throughout the length of said avenues. 

The even numbers shall be on the north and west sides thereof, 
and not more than 100 numbers shall be used in any one block. 

Where no basis is to be had at the beginning of an avenue or 
street for numbering the first crossing of said avenue or street 
shall be the basis for numbers and the numbers shall begin with 
number 98 on the east or south side of said avenue or street and 


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number 97 on the west or north side thereof and shall number 
back to numbers 2 and 1. 

Courts shall be numbered from avenues or street upon which 
they open commencing with number 2 on the south or east side of 
the court and number 1 on the west or north side thereof and 
the number on courts shall be the same as the number of feet 
allowed for the numbers on the streets or avenues to which they 
are parallel. 


Section 736: Whose Duty to Number Building—When to be 
Done. It shall be the duty of every person owning, occupying or 
controlling any building or store fronting on a public street or 
avenue in the City of Alameda to number the same or cause the 
same to be numbered correctly and in accordance herewith, within 
thirty days from the passage of this ordinance, and it shall be the 
duty of any person owning, occupying or controlling any building 
hereafter erected within said city to so number the same within 
_ fifteen days after its completion or occupancy. 


Section 737: At Whose Expense. All buildings must be num- 
bered at the expense of the owner, occupant or person in control 
thereof. 


Section 738: Size and Character of Figures. The regulation 
city number shall consist of metallic figures, two inches in height, 
or something superior thereto, placed upon or immediately above 
the entrance to said buildings. 


Section 739: Incorrect and Illegible Numbers—Notice to Cor- 3 
rect. In case any building in said city shall be unnumbered or 
or incorrectly numbered the number thereof shall have become 
defaced or illegible, it shall be the duty of the owner or occupant 
of th same to cause the same to be numbered correctly within 
ten (10) days after notification so to do given by or under the 
direction of the Building Inspector. 

Said notice may be served by leaving a copy thereof at the 
said building in charge of any person, addressed ‘‘To the owner 
or occupant of this building,’’ or may be given by posting such 
notice on the door or at the entranceway to said building. Said 
notice shall specify the correct number of the building. 

No person shall deface, remove, or destroy any notice so posted 
until the building on which the same is posted has been correctly 
and properly numbered. 


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Section 740: Building Inspector to Give Correct Number. li 
shall be the duty of the Building Inspector to give the correct 
number of any building upon demand, and to give the notiti- 
cation mentioned in Section 739 hereof, when the same appears 
necessary. 


Section 741: Misdemeanor. Every person violating any of 
the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misde. 
meanor. 


Article 7—REGULATING HEIGHT OF DIVISION FENCES 
AND PARTITION WALLS. 


Section 742: Necessity to Obtain a Permit. It shall be unlaw- 
ful for any owner of real property in the City of Alameda, or any 
person having possession thereof, to construct, erect or build, 
after the passage of this Municipal Code, upon such premises 
any division or line fence or partition wall which shall exceed 
six (6) feet in height, without first obtaining a permit to do so 
from the Council of the City of Alameda. 


Section 743: Misdemeanor. Any person violating any of the 
provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Article 8—BILL BOARDS AND ADVERTISING SIGN BOARDS. 


Section 744: Manner in Which Bill Boards are to be Con- 
structed. No person, either by himself, or by any of his agents, 
servants or employees, shall erect, construct or maintain any 
bill board, or advertising sign board within the City of Alameda 
which shall exceed ten feet in height above the ground, and every 
such bill board or advertising sign board shall have an open space 
of at least two feet between the lower edge and the ground, which 
space shall not be closed in any manner while the said bill board 
or advertising sign board stands, nor shall any bill board or 
advertising sign board be placed within a distance of twenty- 
five (25) feet from any sidewalk, school house, church, public 
building or any building used for business purposes or any 


dwelling house. 


No person either by himself or by any of his agents, servants 
or employees shall erect, construct or maintain any bill board or 


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advertising sign board within the City of Alameda, unless the 
same shall be constructed in a safe and workmanlike manner and 
in accordance with the following specifications : 

Posts to which the same is to be attached to be not less than 
4x4 inches in size, to be placed at least three feet apart, and to 
extend to the top of such bill board or advertising sign board. 
Anchor posts to be not less than 4x4 inches in size, each to be 
placed at least three feet in the ground and back of one of the 
posts above mentioned and to which the bill board or adver- 
tising sign board is to be attached. Braces to extend from each 
of the posts to which the bill board or advertising sign board is 
to be attached to its corresponding anchor post, and to be not 
less than 2x4 inches in size and to be securely nailed at each 
end. (As amended by Ord. No. 2 N. 8.) 


Section 745: Bill Boards to Bear Name of Owner. Each bill 
board or advertising sign board hereafter maintained within said 
City shall bear thereon the name of the owner thereof. 


Section 746: Care of Paste and Waste Material Removed. It 
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to scatter, 
daub or leave any paste, glue, or any old bills or posters or pieces 
of the same or other waste material removed from bill boards on 
any public street, alley or sidewalk, or other public place, and it 
shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation owning, 
keeping or maintaining any bill board to keep the street, side- 
walk and premises adjacent thereto free and clear of any and 
all such waste materials from such bill board. | 


section 747: Nude Figures or Indecent Advertisements. It 
shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to display 
for advertising purposes, upon any bill board or advertising sign 
board, or upon or in any window, or upon any building or fence 
or in any public place, any delineation or any nude human figure, 
or any other matter or thing of an indecent or immoral nature, 
or shocking or offensive to the moral sense. 


section 748: Bill Boards Violating Ordinance Constitute a 
Public Nuisance—Abatement. All bill boards or advertising sign 
boards which are found to violate the provisions of section 744 of 
this article after the expiration of sixty days from the passage 
of this Municipal Code shall be declared a public nuisance and 


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it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Streets to report 
the same to the Council and the Council may by resolution order 
the same removed and the said Superintendent of Streets, after 
the adoption of such resolution, shall have authority to remove the 
same forthwith. 


Section 749: Duty to Use Only Authorized Bill Boards. It shall 
be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, engaged in the 
business of advertising, to post, stick tack or otherwise affix or 
cause to be posted, stuck, tacked or otherwise affixed any bill 
snipe, poster, banner, notice or advertisement to or upon any 
building, out-building, or part thereof, or upon any wall, fence, 
gate, post, sidewalk, tree, telegraph pole, telephone pole, awning 
or shelter pole in the City of Alameda, except on a billboard or 
structure built especially for that purpose and in compliance 
with this ordinance, and then only on consent from the owner or 
authorized agent of the property on which the advertisement is 
to be placed. 


Section 750: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


CHAPTER X 


MISCELLANEOUS MISDEMEANORS 


Section 751: Disturbing the Peace. No person shall, in the 
City of Alameda, make, in any place, or suffer to be made upon 
his premises, or premises within his control, any noise, disorder, 
or tumult, to the disturbance of the public peace, or disturb the 
public peace by yelling, whooping, or singing in a_ boisterous 
or rude manner. 


Section 752: Uttering Obscene Language. No person shall, in 
the City of Alameda, utter within the hearing of two or more 
persons, any bawdy, lewd, obscene, or profane language, words 
or epithets.. 


Section 753: Language Causing Breach of the Peace. No per- 
son shall, in the City of Alameda address to another, or utter 


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in the presence of another, any words, language, or expression 
having a tendency to create a breach of the peace. 


Section 754: Use of Riotous Language or Words. No person 
shall, in the City of Alameda, use or utter any language or words 
ealeulated to or having a tendency to incite riot, or a disturbance 
of the peace or the destruction of property. 


Section 755: Barking and Howling Dogs. .It shall be unlawful 
in the City of Alameda to harbor, keep or maintain any dog or 
dogs which disturb the peace and quiet of any neighborhood or 
person by barking, howling or making unusual noises in the night 
time. 


Section 756: Drunkenness. No person shall be drunk in a 
public place or place open to public view, in the City of Alameda. 


Section 757: Exposure of Person. No person shall, in any 
publie place within the city of Alameda wantonly or indecently 
expose his or her person, or conduct himself or herself in a lewd, 
licentious, or Indecent manner. 


Section 758: Bathing. No person shall bathe in the waters of 
the Bay of San Francisco, or any of its estuaries, wtihin the limits 
of the City of Alameda, or lounge or lay on the shores thereof, 
between sunrise and dark of the same day, without wearing a 
bathing dress which covers the person from the shoulders to the 
knees. 


Section 759: Opium Smoking. No person shall, in the City 
of Alameda, keep or maintain, or become an inmate of or visit, 
or shall in any way contribute to the support of any place, house, 
or room where opium is smoked, or where persons assemble for 
the purpose of smoking opium or inhaling the fumes of opium. 


Section 760: House of Ill-Fame or Prostitution. Sub. 1. No 
person in the City of Alameda shall keep or maintain, or become 
an inmate of or visitor to, or in any manner contribute to the 
support of any disorderly house or houses of ill-fame or know- 
ingly let or transfer possession of any premises for use of any 
person for any of said purposes. | 

Sub. 2. No person shall aid or assist or be engaged in earrying 
on: or causing prostitution, induce or attempt to induce prosti- 


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tution to be carried on in any house, room, or place in the City of 
Alameda. 


Section 761: Roaming About the Streets After Midnight. No 
person or persons shall roam or loiter about the streets of the 
City of Alameda between the hours of twelve o’clock midnight 
and four o’clock a. m. without ae lawful business upon said 
streets at that time. 


Section 762: Prohibiting Minors Being out at Night. No 
minor, under sixteen years of age, shall be permitted to go abroad 
upon, or wander about, the streets of said city, between the hour 
of nine o’clock at night, and the hour of four o’clock a. m., unless 
such minor shall have the written permission of his or her 
guardian or parent, or shall be accompanied by such parent or 
guardian, or unless such minor shall have necessary business upon 
such street or streets. 


Section 763: Train Jumping. No person under twenty-one 
years of age, other than an employe of the railroad corporation 
shall, within the corporate limits of the City of Alameda, jump 
on or off any moving car or train propelled by steam or electri- 
city. 


Section 764: Playing Base Ball. No person shall in the City 
of Alameda play base ball upon any street, lane or alley in said 
city or upon any vacant lot or premises having a area of less 
than one hundred feet in length and one hundred feet in width. 


Section 765: Minors Smoking Cigarettes Prohibited. No minor 
under the age of eighteen years shall smoke tobacco, in any pub- 
lic place in the City of Alameda. 


Section 766: Selling Minors Cigarettes Prohibited. No person 
in the City of Alameda, shall sell, barter, or give tobacco in any 
form to any minor under the age of eighteen years. 


Section 767: Use of Animals for Purposes of Propogation. It 
shall not be lawful for the owner, keeper or person having 
possession or control of any stallion, jack, or bull, to allow any 
such stallion, jack or bull to serve any animal within one hundred 
(100) feet of any dwelling house occupied by another than such 
person, or in any public street or alley, or within sight of the 
same, or contiguous thereto so that such service be exposed to the 


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view of any person passing in said street or alley or located at 
the window of any house adjacent thereto. 


Section 768: Cruelty to Animals. No person, in the City of 
Alameda, shall cruelly beat, torture, misuse, deprive of food or 
water, or otherwise maltreat, any animal. j 


Section 769: Killing Birds. No person shall, in the City of 
Alameda, entrap, kill or destroy any bird or birds, except Eng- 
lish sparrows. 


Section 770: Gambling. No person shall, in the City of Ala- 
meda, keep or maintain, or become an inmate of, or a visitor 
to, or shall in any way contribute to the support of any house 
or place for the practice of gambling, or knowingly let or underlet, 
or transfer, the possession of any premises for the use, by any 
person, for any of said purposes. 


Section 771: Nickel-in-the-Slot Machines or Other Mechanical 
Gambling Devices. Every person who conducts, carries on, main- 
tains or plays at or against any nickel in the slot machine or other 
mechanical device, operated or played as a game of chance for 
money, checks, eredit, drinks or other merchandise, or any rep- 
resentative of value, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 


Section 772: Gambling Devices in Barred or Barricaded Houses 
or Rooms. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpora- 
tion within the limits of the City of Alameda to exhibit or ex- 
pose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room, or in 
any place protected in a manner to make it difficult of access or 
ingress to police officers when three or more persons are present, 
any playing cards, dice, dominoes, fan-tan table or layout or any 
part of such layout, or any gambling implements whatsoever. 


Section 773: Visiting Barred or Barricaded Houses Contain- 
ing Gambling Devices. It shall be unlawful for any person within 
the limits of the City of Alameda to visit or resort to any barred 
or barricaded house or room, or any other place built or protected 
in a manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to police 
officers, where any playing cards, dice, dominoes, fan-tan tables. 
or layout, or any part of such layout, or any gambling imple- 
ments whatsoever are exhibited or exposed to view when three 
or more persons are present. 


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Section 774: Possession of Lottery Tickets or Lottery Imple- 
ments. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his posses- 


sion unless it be shown that such possession is innocent or for a 
lawful purpose, any lottery ticket, certificate, paper or instru- 
ment purporting or representing or understood to be, or to rep- 
resent any ticket, chance, share, or interest in or depending upon 
the event of any lottery, or any tool, instrument, stamp or de- 
vice, used or intended to be used in or for contriving, setting up, 
preparing, or drawing any lottery, or used or intended to be 
used in or for contriving, preparing, making, writing, printing, 
stamping, or getting ready for sale or distribution any lottery 
ticket or tickets. 


Section 775: Presence in Room as Constituting Possession of 
Articles Therein. Every person found in any room, office or 
apartment, or place, where any of such airticles enumerated in 
Section 774 are found, shall, unless the contrary appears, be 
deemed to have possession of such articles. 


Section 776: Improper Use of Police Whistles. It shall be un- 
lawful for any person, in the City of Alameda, not a police officer, 
or not needing police assistance, to blow any policeman’s whistle. 


Section 777: Personating Police or Firemen. No person, in 
said city, shall falsely do any act or thing to lead any person to 
believe that he is ‘a police or other peace officer or member of 
the Fire Department. 


Section 778: Concealed Weapons. It shall be unlawful for 
any person not being a public officer, or not having a permit from 
the Chief of Police, approved by the Mayor of the City, to wear 
or carry, concealed, any pistol, dirk, brass or iron knuckles, 
sand club, slung shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. 

Section 779: Spring Guns. No person shall discharge upon 
any public street or place in the City of Alameda any gun, by 
means of which any missile is projected by a spring, bow, or 
compressed air, or use any implement whereby stones, beans, 
shot, pebbles, or other substance are projected. i 

No person shall, in the City of Alameda, hurl or throw any 
stone or other missile by means of any sling. 


Section 780: Prohibiting Use of Certain Fire-Arms and Fire- 
Works. No person shall fire or discharge, or cause to be fired or 


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discharged, in the City of Alameda, any fire-works or fire-arms 
of any kind whatsoever excepting torpedoes, torpedo-canes, or 
fire-crackers of not more than two inches in length, without first 
obtaining permission of the Mayor so to do. 


Section 781: Prohibiting Sale of Fireworks. No person shall 
sell, or give away, or keep for sale in said City any fire-works 
of any kind whatever excepting torpedoes, torpedo-canes, or fire- 
crackers of not more than two inches in length, unless permission 
for the use thereof has been first obtained as provided in Sec- 
tion 780. 


Section 782: When Shooting Galleries to be Closed. It shall 
be unlawful for any person or persons owning, conducting or 
managing a shooting gallery or galleries, in the City of Alameda, 
to keep open the same, or to discharge or permit to be discharged 
any cartridge or cartridges thereim, between the hours of twelve 
p. m. and daylight of the following morning. 


Section 783: Not to Cut or Injure Telegraph Wires. No per- 
son in the City of Alameda shall cut, injure or interfere with any 
telegraph, telephone, electric light wire or insulator or Police 
Signal System or Fire Alarm wires without lawful authority. 

(As amended by Ord. No. 2 N. 8S.) 


Section 784: Regulating the Distribution of Hand Bills, 
Dodgers and Advertising Matter. It is hereby declared to be un- 
lawful for any person to throw upon the premises owned, occu- 
pied or controlled by another any bill, poster, flyer or advertise- 
ment of any merchandise, profession, business or trade without 
having first obtdined the express consent of such other person so 
to do, and unless said advertising matter be enclosed or contained 
in an envelope and handed to a person on the premises where de- 
livered; provided that this ordinance shall not apply to the dis- 
tribution of newspapers or of the United States mail. | 


Section 785: Not to Destroy Lawful Notices or Advertise- 
ments. No person shall obliterate, deface, remove, or destroy a 
notice required by law to be posted or advertisement lawfully 
posted by a licensed bill poster, or officer, employee or board 
of the City of Alameda, or by any lawfully constituted authority. 


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Section 786: Threats to Construct Certain Buildings. No per- 
son in said city, for the purpose of promoting the sale of, or in- 
fluencing others to purchase any land therein, shall threaten to 
construct or maintain on said property any wash-house, stable 
or chicken-yard, or any other structure or nuisance which would 
be offensive to residents of that neighborhood. 


Section 787: Not to Post or Paint Signs or Bills on Fences, 
Etc., Without Owner’s Consent. No person in the City of Ala- 
meda shall post, stick, stamp, paint or otherwise affix, or cause 
to be posted, stuck, stamped, painted or otherwise affixed, any 
bill, poster, placard, notice, or advertisement, to or upon any house 
or part therof, wall, fence, gate, post, sidewalk, trees. or boxes 
around trees, curb, or curbstone, lamp-post, hydrant, or any post 
supporting electric wires, in any part of the city, without first ob- 
taining permission of the owner, agent or occupant of the premises 
so to do. (As amended by Ord. No. 2 N. S.) 


Section 788: Duty to Remove The Same. Any person or firm 
whose posters, notices, or advertisements are stamped, painted, 
or affixed to or upon any house, wall, fence, gate, sidewalk, trees, 
or boxes around trees, or poles, or posts in said city without first 
obtaining permission of the owner, agent or occupant of the pre- 
mises so to do, shall, upon request of the owner of the same, or his 
agent or the occupant of the premises where such poster, notice, 
or advertisement may be stamped, painted, or affixed, remove or 
cause to be removed, the same, within five days from such notice. 
(As amended by Ord. No. 2 N. 8S.) 


Section 789: Erection of For Sale or To Let or Other Signs. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation in the 
City of Alameda to erect, construct, place or maintain any signs 
indicating that property is to let or for sale upon any land or 
building not owned by such person, firm or corporation, unless 
written permission be first obtained from the owner of said pro- 
perty. Said authorization shall specify the term of the permis- 
sion given and any sign erected or placed upon the property 
shall be removed by the person whose name appears thereon at 
the expiration of the term of said permission. 


Section 790: Signs, Advertisements and Names on Land of 
Another. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation 


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in the City of Alameda to erect, place or maintain upon the pro- 
perty of another any sign, advertisement or name without the 
written authorization of the owner of said property, which au- 
thorization must specify the term for which said permission 1s 
given. At the expiration of said term all advertisements and 
names so erected or placed shall be removed by the person, firm 
or corporation whose advertisements or name appears thereon. 


Section 791: Misdemeanor. Any person who shall violate any 
of the provisions of this Article shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor. 


CHAPTER XI 


MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 


Section 792: Place of Imprisonment for Violation of Muni- 
cipal Code. In all cases of conviction for the violation of any 
provision of this Ordinance known as The Municipal Code of the 
City of Alameda, the person or persons so convicted, when the 
sentence includes imprisonment, shall be imprisoned in the City 
Prison of the City of Alameda for the period prescribed in the — 
sentence. (As amended by Ord. No. 2 N. 8.) 


Section 793: Violation of Section of Municipal Code Consti- 
tutes Misdemeanor. Any person who violates any provisions of 
this ordinance, known as The Municipal Code of the City of 


Alameda, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. (As amended 
by Ord. No. 2.8.) 


Section 794: Penalty for Conviction of a Misdemeanor. Any 
person who shall be convicted of violating any provisions of this. 
ordinance, known as The Municipal Code of the City of Alameda, 
- shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished 
by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, or by imprison- 
ment in the City Prison of the City of Alameda not exceeding six 
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (As amended 
by Ord. No. 2 N. 8.) : 


Section 794a. .Alternative Privilege of Satisfying Fine by im- 
prisonment. Whenever a person has been convicted of any mis- 


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demeanor under this Municipal Code, the Court may, in imposing 
sentence upon him that he pay a fine in some stated amount, pro- 
vided that in case he does not pay such fine, he is imprisoned until 
the said fine is paid in the proportion of one day’s imprisonment 
for every two dollars of such fine. (As amended by Ord. No 2 
NutBs) 


Section 795: When Code to take effect: This ordinance known 
as “The Municipal Code of the City of Alameda,’’ shall take effect 
and be in force from and after its publication, in manner as pro- 
vided by law. 


Section 796: Ordinances subsequent to Nov. 15, 1912, not af- 
fected: No ordinance approved since the 15th day of November, 
1912, shall be repealed or in any way affected by any of the pro- 
visions of this ordinance. 


CHAPTER XIII 


RATES OF RAILWAY FARES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. 


Section 798: Rates of Fares to be Charged School Children. 
The rates of fare to be charged by any person, association or 
corporation engaged in the transportation of passengers on rail- 
ways within the City of Alameda, for the transportation of 
pupils under the age of twenty-one, who attend the public or 
private schools thereof between any given point from or to 
which it is necessary for them to ride in traveling to and from 
the school houses within said City of Alameda, in which they 
attend, shall not exceed two and one-half (214) cents for the 
transportation of one pupil between said points. (Ord. No. 6. 
N. 8S.) 


Section 799: Tickets for Transportation. Tickets for the 
transportation of pupils, as aforesaid, shall be sold in packages 
or books of twenty (20) tickets each by the railway conductors 
and at ticket offices established in said City of Alameda by said 
person, association, or corporation engaged in the transpor- 
tation of passengers, as aforesaid, and said tickets shall be re- 
ceived for such transportation in said City of Alameda during 
the days in which said schools are in session and shall be avail- 


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able and used in actual passage to and from school, with such 
privileges of transfers as are enjoyed by other passengers con- 
veyed by said person, association or corporation engaged in the 
transportation of passengers on railways, subject to all reasonable 
regulations which they may impose not inconsistent with the 
provisions of the charter of the City of Alameda and the ordin- 

ances of said city. (Ord. No. 6, N. 8.) 


Section 800. Pupils Must Secure Certificate of Attendance. 
Any pupil under the age of twenty-one years attending any 
publie or private school in the City of Alameda desiring the priv- 
ileges herein provided, shall secure from the Principal. or the 
head teacher of the school which said pupil attends, a certificate 
showing that said pupil is in actual and regular attendance there- 
in, which certificate must be presented to said conductor, person, 
association or corporation engaged in the transportation of pas- 
sengers on railways, in order to entitle said pupil to the aforesaid 
tickets at the reduced rate of fare provided for in Sections 798 
and 799 of this ordinance. (Ord. No. 6, N.S.) 


Section 801: Misdemeanor. Any person, association or cor- 
poration engaged in the transportation of passengers on railways 
violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. No. 6, N. 8.) 


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APPENDIX 


ORDINANCE NO. 4 


AN ORDINANCE CONFINING THE USE OF POLES AND 
OVERHEAD WIRES BY ELECTRIC RAILWAYS TO 
THE STREETS WHEREON SUCH RAILWAYS ARE OP- 
ERATED. 


Be it ordained by the people of the City of Alameda as follows: 


Section 1. .It shall be unlawful after thirty days have elapsed 
from the time this ordinance takes effect for any corporation, 
partnership or individual owning or operating an electric rail- 
way, to erect, maintain, continue, use, operate, or employ any 
pole or overhead wire, overhead cable or device except such as 
are herein specially exempted, over or upon the streets or alleys 
in the City of Alameda, through, by, over or by means of which 
electricity is, has or may be in any manner transmitted, con- 
ducted or conveyed, or to keep, continue, maintain, use, operate 
or employ any such pole or any such overhead wire, cable, device 
or apparatus, except as herein provided, -and all such poles and 
all such overhead wires, cables, devices and apparatus, as afore- 
said, except such as are herein exempted from the provisions of 
this order, shall at and after the time specified aforesaid be 
deemed and become public nuisances. 


Section 2. .Each and every such poles, overhead wire. cable, 
device, and apparatus as aforesaid, within the said City, except- 
ing such as are herein exempted, owned, controlled, operated, 
employed or used by any corporation, copartnership or individual 
for the aforesaid purposes, shall be taken down and removed 
before the time specified aforesaid, by and at the cost and ex- 
pense of the corporation, partnership or individual so owning. 
controlling, operating, employing or using the same. 


Section 3. The Board of Electricity shall at the time specified 
aforesaid proceed to at once take down, remove and carry away 
any and all such poles, overhead wires, devices and apparatus 


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aforesaid, as nay not have been previously removed by the own- 
ers or operators thereof, and the said Board is hereby given full 
power and authority to use aud employ for that purpose as much 
force as may be necessary to effectually carry out the provisions 
of this order. 


Section 4. Any corporation, copartnership or individual who 
shall erect or construct, place or keep, maintain, continue, em- 
ploy, operate or use in any manner whatever, for any of the 
above mentioned purposes, any such pole or overhead wire, cable, 
device or apparatus aforesaid, except such as are herein exempted, 
after the time specified aforesaid or who shall neglect to take 
down and remove according to the provisions of this order, any 
and all overhead wires, devices or apparatus, as aforesaid, shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall 
be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars 
for every day such poles, cables, wires or appliances are left 
standing. 


Section 5. Such terminal poles, such wires and cables not more 
than 200 feet in length and such other appliances as may be ne- 
cessary for reaching trolley wires at the terminals of underground 
wires shall be erected and maintained under the suprvision and 
to the satisfaction of the Board of Electricity and are exempted 
from the provisions of this order. _ 


Section 6. The poles and trolley and feed wires used ex- 
clusively for the transmission of electric power for railway pur- 
poses erected, maintained, operated and used upon the streets 
whereon such railways are located and operated, the guy wires 
necessary to support such trolley wires and necessary protective 
wires at crossings are expressly exempted from the provisions of 
this order, but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as 
to authorize or permit the erection, maintenance, operation 3 
use of any poles or wires upon such streets without the consent 
of the Council of said City first had and obtained. 


(Passed at Municipal Election held April 14, 1913.) 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 227 


ORDINANCE NO. 5 


AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE ERECTION, MAINTEN.- 
ANCE AND USE OF OVERHEAD ELECTRIC WIRES 
AND POLES WITHIN A CERTAIN DISTRICT IN THE 
CITY OF ALAMEDA. — 


Be it ordained by the people of the City of Alameda as follows: 


Section 1. It shall be unlawful ofter thirty days have elapsed 
from the time this ordinance takes effect for any electric light, 
electric power, telegraph, telephone or other electric company, or 
any corporation, partnership individual or municipality to erect, 
maintain, continue, use, operate or employ any pole or overhead 
wire, overhead cable or device on poles over or upon the streets 
and alleys in that portion of the City of Alameda lying southerly 
of the center line of Eagle avenue and of said center 
line extending easterly and westerly to the limits of said 
City, except such as are herein specially exempted, by, through 
over or by means of which electricity is or may be conducted or 
conveyed for the purpose of electric light, heat, power, telegraph, 
telephone or other electric service or to keep, continue, maintain, 
use, operate, or employ any such pole or overhead wires, cables, 
devices or apparatus, except as herein provided, and all such 
poles, and all such overhead wires, cables, devices and apparatus 
shall at and after the time specified be deemed and become public 
nuisances. 


Section 2. Hach and every such pole, overhead wire, cable, de- 
vice and apparatus as aforesaid, within the said City, excepting 
such as are herein exempted, owned, controlled, operated, em- 
ployed, or used by any corporation, copartnership or individual 
for the aforesaid purposes, shall be taken down and removed 
before the time specified aforesaid, by and at the cost and ex- 
pense of the corporation, copartnership or individual so owning, 
controlling, operating, employing or using the same. 


Section 3. The Board of Electricity shall at the time specified 
aforesaid proceed to at once take down, remove and carry away 
any and all such poles, overhead wires, devices and apparatus 


228 THE MUNICIPAL CODE 


atoresaid, as may not have been previously removed by the own- 
ers or operators thereof, and the said Board is hereby given full 
power and authority to use and employ for that purpose as much 
force as may be necessary to effectually carry out the provisions 
of this order. 


section 4. Any corporation, copartnership or individual who 
shall erect or construct, place or keep, maintain, continue, employ. 
operate or use in any manner whatever, for any of the above 
mentioned purposes, any such pole or overhead wire, cable, device 
or apparatus aforesaid, except such as are herein exempted, after 
the time specified aforesaid, or who shall neglect to take down 
and remove according to the provisions of this order, any and all 
overhead wires, devices or apparatus, as aforesaid, shall be guilty 
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined 
not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars for every 
day such poles, cables, wires or appliances are left standing. 


Section 5. Electric railways are hereby expressly exempted 
from the provisions of this ordinance in so far as it affects the 
poles and wires used exclusively for the transmission of electric 
power for railway purposes, erected and maintained by permis- 
sion of the Council of the City of Alameda upon, over and above 
the streets whereupon said electric railways are maintained and 
operated. 


section 6. All poles, wires and appliances erected and main: 
tained prior to the first day of September, 1912, and any and all 
poles and wires which may become necessary in replacement or 
renewal thereof and such new wires and appliances, other than 
the feed wires and other wires of electric railways, as may, with 
the consent of the Council of said City, be placed upon or at- 
tached to such poles are exempted from the provisions of this 
order. 


(Passed at Municipal Election held April 14, 1913.) 


CITY OF ALAMEDA, CALIF. 229 


Adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda this 
14th day of January, 1913. 
Wer ele Ch ye 
Presiding Officer of the Council. 


Attest : F. KE. BROWNING, 
City Clerk. 


(Seal of the City of Alameda.) 


Presented and approved by me this 14th day of January, 1918. 
W. HeNO Ye 
Mayor of the City of Alameda. 


I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was adopted and 
passed by the Council of the City of Alameda, in regular meeting 
assembled, on the 14th day of January, 1913, by the following vote. 
Aves: Councilmen Walker, MacRae, Hammond, Probst and Bul- 
lock (5). Noes: None. Absent: Councilmen Spence, Ells and 
Morgenstern, and I further certify that the said ordinance was 
presented to and approved by the Mayor on the 14th day of 
January, 1913. 

F. E. BROWNING, 
City Clerk of Alameda. 
(Seal of the City of Alameda.) 


INDEX. 


ABATEMENT— 
of certain nuisances, 467. 
ABBREVIATIONS— 
initials and figures may be used in tax assessments and the like, 99. 
ABSENT OR UNKNOWN OWNERS— 
assessment of their property, 35, 36. 
ACCEPTANCE— 
of private streets, 108. 
of street crossings, 105. 
general requirements for, 106. 
of street, not deemed of railroad track way or curb, 107. 
partial or conditional acceptance, 108. 
ACIDS— 
manufacture of, 294. 
ACKNOW LEDGEMENT— 
of deeds by tax collector, 89. 
ADMINISTRATOR, GUARDIAN OR EXECUTOR— 
how such estates are assessed, 37. 
ADOPTION— 
of title 9. Part 3. Pol. Code relating to revenue, 102. 
of secs. 3791-3796 Pol. Code, as part hereof, 67. 
of title IX Part TIT Pol. Code, 102. 
ADVERTISEMENTS— 
not to be posted or painted on property without owner‘s consent, 
HST. 190. 
such advertisements to be removed after notice, 788. 
none to be placed on temporary fences while construction work 
proceeding, 114. 
advertising matter, distribution of, 784. 
ADVERTISING SIGN BOARDS— 
see Bill Boards. 


AFFIDAVIT— 
of auditor on delivering corrected assessment book to tax collector, 
59. i 


of assessor on completing assessment book, 43. 
failure to make, not to affect assessment, 43. 
of city clerk respecting changes in assessments by Board of Equal- 
ization, 55. 
tax collector to make, to copy of delinquent tax list filed with city 
clerk and county recorder, 76. 
of tax collector where property assessed more than once, 91. 
of tax payer to fact of escaped assessment, 48. 
AGENT— 
property held by, how assessed, 37. 
AIR GUNS— 
use of, 779. 


ALL TAXES— 
may be paid when first installment due, 60. 


ALTERATION OR REPAIR— 
of wood frame buildings, necessity for permit, 584. 


232 Index—References are to Sections. 


ALTERATIONS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


ALTERNATIVE PRIVILEGE— 
of satisfying fine by imprisonment, 794a. 


AMBULANCES— 
right of way of, on streets, 194, 214. 


AMUSEMENT PLACES— 
building regulations relating to, see Theatres. 


ANCHORS— 
for walls, 632. 


ANIMALS— 
dead animals not to be deposited in Bay of San Francisco, 265. 
disposition of dead ones, 401. 
cruelty to, 768. 
afflicted with tuberculosis, 381. 
afflicted with glanders, 382. 
Board of Health authorized to destroy those afflicted with tubercu- 
losis or glanders, 383. 
allowing to enter or run in public park, 134. 
grazing on public streets or unfenced lots, 122. 
driving loose animals on public streets, 125. 
right to impound trespassing animals, 407. 


APARTMENT HOUSE— . 
as used in building regulations,, defined, 568. 


APPEAL— 
from order of Street Superintendent to remove weeds, etc., 459, 462. 


ARBITRARY ASSESSMENTS— 
demand by Council for taxpayer to render statement within ten days, 
34, 
of persons refusing to render statement, 34. 
assessor to make notation of certain facts, 34. ‘ 
Council to investigate such assessments, 34. 


ASHHS— 
disposition of, 290. 
receptacles tror, 290. 2940 


ASSESSMENT, LEVY AND COLLECTION OF CITY TAXES— 
adoption of section 3627, Pol. Code, 28. 
what property assessable and how assessment made, 29. 
power of Assessor to exact statement of assessable property, 30. 
city council to furnish assessor blank forms, 31. 
manner of filling out statement, 32. 
property to be assessed in name of person owning, claiming or hold- 

ita eth eas 

effect of mistake in name of owner or supposed Owner, 29. 
franchises granted by City of Alameda, 29. 
franchises granted outside of City of Alameda, 29. 
lands to be assessed in certain parcels or subdivisions, 29. 
of solvent credits not secured by mortgage, 29. 
debts deducted from solvent credits, 30. 
tax statements to show aggregate amount of, 380. 
deductions to be made for debts for which property subject, 42. 
franchises to be separately assessed, 42. 
cash value of taxable property to be shown, 42. 
property held on first Monday in March, taxable, 30. 
property held in trust to be shown in tax statement, 30. 
money deposits, 30. 
what tax statements should contain, 30. 


Index—References are to Sections. 233 


tax statements to be made under oath, 30. 

statements of taxable property, official form for, 31. 

manner of filling out, 32. 

assessor may require statement returned at stated time, 32. 

affidavit to statement to state place of businses of firm or corpo- 
Tation, 31. 

penalty for refusal to furnish verified statement or testify regard- 
ing taxable property, 33. 

penalty recoverable by assessor in justice court, 33. 

duty to furnish information and penalty, 33, 34. 

absent or unknown owners, 35. 

property held on consignment, 35. 

how assessment made against absent owner, 36. 

property held in representative capacity, 37. 

property held as agent, trustee, bailee, guardian, executor or ad- 
ministrator, io. 

how unpartitioned property of estate assessed, 39. 

how property of an estate assessed, 39. 

assessed to either heirs or administrator, 39. 

how assessed, when owned by firm or corporation, 388. 

effect where property wilfully concealed or removed, 40. 

effect where escaped last assessment, 41. 

duty of assessor to prepare assessment books, 42. 

property wilfully concealed, removed or transferred to evade tax- 
ation, 40. 

not to be reduced by council where property wilfully concealed, 40. 

effect of failure or neglect to assess property, 47. 

right of taxpayer to call attention of council to escape assessment, 
48. 

how taxable improvements on exempt land to be assessed, 42. 

city and town lots, how described in assessment, 42. 

description by metes and bounds, or other identifying description 
sufficient, 42. 

description of land already described, 46. 

assessment of land where several claimants, 46. 

what assessment books to contain, 42. 

when the book to be completed, 42. 

index to assessment to show name of taxpayer and page of assess- 
ment, 44. A 

failure of assessor to make affidavit required on completing book 
no effect on assessment, 43. 

delivery of assessment book to city clerk, 45. 

notice of meeting of Board of Equalization to be published in offi- 
cial newspaper, 45. 

when rate of taxation to be levied, 49. 

how and when rate of taxation is fixed, 56. 

what allowance made for delinquencies, 56. 

levying of the tax, 56. 

bock to be delivered to auditor when tax levied, 58. 

necessity for application for reduction of valuation, 51. 

when claimed to be void in part, 638. 

procedure of one claiming assessment to be void or void in part, 68. 

form of protest, 63. 

right to pay taxes on particular lot separate from whole assessment, 
64. 

when unsecured personal property must be assessed, 65. 

right to pay all taxes when first installment due, 60. 

necessity to show payments on assessment book, 69. 

of property purchased by city at tax sale, 96. 

how such property to be redeemed, 97. 


234 Index—References are to Sections. 


harmless omissions or errors and how cured, 98, 100. 
use of abbreviations, initials and figures, 99. 
bulletin in lieu of newspaper advertising, 101. 


ASSESSOR— 
governed by ordinance in making assessments, 27. 
to ascertain names of taxable inhabitants and taxable property, 
when, 29. 
to assess property to person owning, claiming or possessing it, on 
certain date, 29. 
power to exact verified statement of taxable property owned, 30. 
what such statement should show, 30. 
right of assessor to examine books of bank, 30. 
power to require information for that purpose, 33. 
power to require affidavit giving name, residence or place of busi- 
ness, 33. 
subpoena and examine person relating to taxable property, 33. 
to transmit list of persons refusing or neglecting to render state- 
ments to council, 34. ; 
to prepare assessment books, 42. 
to prepare index to assessment book, 44. 
liability of him and his sureties on his bond, 47. 
city attorney to sue on assessor’s bond for taxes lost by assessor’s 
neglect, 48. 
to be present or by deputy a/ hearings of Board of Equalization, 54. 
right to question witnesses hefore board, 54. 
right to collect taxes and enforce same by seizure of personal prop- 
erly, iG. 
to return unused forms of *x receipts, 70. 
ASSIGNABILITY— 
of liquor licenses, 472. 
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS O7' FIRE ENGINES— 
salaries of, 8. 
ASTROLOGISTS— 
licenses for, 504. 
ATTEMPTS TO EVADE TAXATION— 
by wilfully concealing or misrepresenting property, 40. 
ATTIC OR BASEMENT— 
when to count as one story, 607. 
necessity to allow access to, 597. 
term attic as used in building regulations, defined, 596. 
AUDITOR— 
to compute the tax to be levied on property, 58. 
when to deliver corrected assessment book to tax collector, 59. 
form of affidavit on delivering book, 59. 
to charge tax collector with full amount of taxes levied, 59. 
to compare with tax collector delinquent list of taxpayers, 71. 
settlement with tax collector, 73. 
AUCTIONEERS— 
license fees for, 505. 
conductors of judicial sales exempted from license, 505. 
AUTOMOBILES— 
regulations respecting use of on streets, 179. 
to maintain signals, or gongs, 220. 
to display front and rear lights, 221. 
reckless or dangerous driving of vehicles on street, 230. 
exempted from petroleum products regulations, 328. 
used for carrying passengers, licenses for, 541. 
used for delivery purposes, 541. 
AVENUES— 


Index—References are to Sections. 235 


dedicated to public use, 1038. 
what are declared accepted as open, 103. 
AW NINGS— 
maintaining wooden or unsafe ones, 170, 171. 
construction and maintenance of, 627. 
BADGE OF OFFICE— 
building inspector to show on entering building, 561. 
BAGATELLE TABLES— 
Keepers of, license tax for, 508. 
BAILEE— 
property held by, how assessed, 37. 
BANKS— 
right of assessor to examine books of to verify assessment state- 
ments, 30. 
BANNERS— 
hanging on or over streets, 127. 
BANNISTER’S MAP— 
streets shown on declared public streets, 103. 
BARBED WIRE FENCES— 
maintenance of, 126. 
BARNS AND STABLES— 
distance from dwellings, 387. 
BARKING OR HOWLING DOGS— 
harboring of, 755. 
BARRED OR BARRICADED HOUSES— 
gambling devices in, 772. 
visiting or resorting, 773. 
BASEBALL— 
playing of, on vacant lots, 764. 
BASEMENT— 
or cellar, as used in building regulations, defined, 
or attic, when to count as one story, 607. 
BATHING— ) 
without bathing dress, 758. 
suit, character of, to be used, 758. 
BATHS— 
see Public Baths. 
BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO— 
garbage or filth not to be deposited in, 265. 
BAY, ORIEL OR SWELL WINDOWS— 
SCONSTEUCTION SOL, 6.0.2. 
BEAMS AND GIRDERS— 
strength of, 579. 
BEARING WALL— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
BEER-BOTTLERS— 
licenses for, 510. 
BELL TRAPS— 
prohibited in plumbing work, 702. 
BICYCLES AND SKATES— 
on stone sidewalks, 175. 
BIDDERS— 


at delinquent tax sale who refuses to pay his bid not allowed to 
bid again, 80. 
for sidewalks constructed by city, what to state, 168. 


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Index—References are to Sections. 


236 


BILL BOARD LICENSES— 
annual license for bill board advertisers, 548. 
affidavit to be filed before issuance of license, 549. 
when tax is payable, 550. 
necessity to procure license, 551. 

BILL BOARDS AND ADVERTISING SIGN BOARDS— 
manner in which to be constructed, 744. 
bill boards to bear name of owner, 745. 
care of paste and waste material removed, 746. 
nude figures or indecent advertisements, 747. 
those violating ordinance constitute public nuisance, 748. 
abatement of such nuisances, 748. 
only authorized bill boards to be used, 749. 


BILLIARD ROOMS— 
licenses for, 508. 
closing time for, 485. 
minors to be barred from, 484, 486. 
BIRDS— e 
kins Vor. 169. 
BITCH— 
care of during period of ocestruation, 413, 415, 416. 
BLOCKING STREET— 
by railroad: cars, or trai, 1236: 
BOARDING STABLES— 
licenes for, 522. 
BOARD OF ELECTRICITY— 
registration of electrical constructors before, 718, 719. 
necessity to obtain permit from, for electrical work, 721. 
application for inspection by, 722. 


to remove poles and overhead trolley wires. Ord. No. 4 N. S. Appendix. 


BOARD OF EQUALIZATION— 
notices of hearing to be sent property owners or agents, 50. 
where notices to be sent where address unknown, 50. 
notice of its meeting to be published in official newspaper, 45. 
council to meet as such board, 49. 
to meet on first Tuesday in September, 49. 
how long to sit as such, 49. 
its general powers, 54. 
power to change assessments, 50. 
notice of hearings to be given interested persons, 50. 
not to reduce valuation of property except on application, 51. 
necessity for evidence to make reduction, 52. 
applicant to answer all questions, 52. 


duty as to assessments where person fails to render statement, 34. 


not to be reduced from value fixed by assessor, 34. 
power to subpoena witnesses on hearings, 53. 
BOARD OF HEALTH— 
see subject under Public Health. 
BOARD OF POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSIONERS— 
duties relating to fire department, 285. 


to approve detail of sergeants and detectives and revoke same, 269. 


BOARDS— 

included by words importing masculine, 3. 
BOND TIMBERS— 

construction of, 634. 


Index—References are to Sections. 237 


BONDS— 
matter relating to bonds of officials, see Official Bonds. 
indemnity bond on removal of building, 242. 
executing bond in lieu of cash deposit on removing macadam, 146. 
for liquor license, 474. 
required of master plumber, 668. 
statement of bonds owned in tax statements, 30. 
BONFIRES— 
maintenance of, 301. 
BOOK AGENTS— 
licenses for, 535. 
BOOK FORM— 
publication of Municipal Code in, 4. 
BOTTLERS— 
of non-intoxicants, licenses for, 511. 
of beer, licenses for, 510. 
BOWLING ALLEYS— 
license tax for, 509. 
BOX BALL COURTS— 
license tax for, 509. 
BOXES, BARRELS, ETC.— 
as obstructions to sidewalk, 176. 
BOXING EXHIBITIONS— 
licenses for, 536. 
BRANCHES OF TREES— 
extending over streets or sidewalks, 121. 
BRASS KNUCKLES— 
carrying of, 778. 
BREACH OF PEACH— 
language causing, 753. 
BREAKING— 
through fire lines,,313. 
BREWERS AND BEER BOTTLERS— 
licenses for, 510. 
BRICK MASONRY— 
thickness of walls, when of, 630. 
BRICKS— 
test of, for building purposes, 570. 
BRIDGING— 
in building construction work, 600. 
Over joists and partitions, 594. 
BRUSH OR REFUSE— 
burning of, 300. 
BUILDING— 
constructed in violation of law, occupation of, 647. 
BUILDING INSPECTOR— 
office and duties, 10. 
how appointed and tenure, 11. 
suspension of, by mayor, 11. 
Salary Ol. elas 
what building inspection fee includes, 13. 
right to enter buildings, 561. 
in charge of numbering of buildings, 739, 740. 


238 Index—References are to Sections. 


BUILDING RULES AND REGULATIONS— 
rules applying to places of amusement, see Theatres. 
term building as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
to what buildings applicable, 553. 
extent of fire limit districts, 554. 
where cost exceeds amount specified in application, 558. 
necessity to file certain statements and specifications before com- 
mencing construction, 559. 
permits to be exhibited to authorities, 560. 
inspector’s right to enter buildings, 561. 
building inspector to be notified when ready to lath or sheat. 
expiration and renewal of permits, 568. 
permit for demolition of buildings, 564. 
how demolition to be done, 565. 
non-liability of city for damages, 566. 
fees for building permits, 567. 
definition of terms used in building regulations, 568. 
alterations, defined, 568. 
repairs, defined, 568. 
party walls, defined, 568. 
partition wall, defined, 568. 
bearing wall, defined, 568. 
exterior wall, defined, 568. 
fire wall, defined, 568. 
retaining wall, defined, 568. 
fire limits numbers 8 and 4, 555. 
necessity for building permit, 556. 
no permit necessary where cost under $50, 556. 
application for permit, 557. 
division wall, defined, 568. 
thickness of wall, defined, 568. 
cellar or basement, defined, 568. 
dwellings, defined, 568. 
apartment house, defined, 568. 
tenement house, defined, 568. 
flats, defined, 568. 
hotel, defined, 568. 
office building, defined, 568. 
lodging house, defined, 568. 
ware house, defined, 568. 
story, defined, 568. 
terra cotta, defined, 568. 
hard terra cotta fireproofing, defined, 568. 
semi-porous terra cotta fireproofing, defined, 568. 
dead load, defined, 568. 
live load, defined, 568. 
building, defined, 568. 
masonry, defined, 568. 
hospital, sanitarium or sanitorium, defined, 568. 
meaurements for height, length and width of buildings, 569. 
tests of bricks, 570. | 
use of old bricks, 570. 
test of sand, 571. 
test of lime mortar, 572. 
test of Portland cement, 573. 
tests of cement mortar, 574. 
test of cement and lime mortar, 575. 
test of concrete, 576. 
strength of floors, 577. 
strength and pitch of roofs, 578. 


Index—References are to Sections. 239 


strength of sidewalks, 579. 

strength of beams and girders, 580. 

equal distribution of weight on floors, 581. 

wood frame buildings, defined, 582. 

frame building, defined, 588. 

necessity for permit to alter or repair wood frame buildings, 584. 
exclusion of wood and frame buildings from fire limits No. 1, 585. 
weight to be carried by frame buildings, 586. 

height limitations, 587. 

walls of wood frame buildings, 588. 

veneered walls, 589. 

thickness of foundation walls, 590. 

size of studding, 591. 

underpinning, 592. 

floor joists, 598. 

solid bridging over joists and partitions, 594. 

dividing partitions, 595. 

autics, 596. 

access to attics, 597. 

water closets or urinals, 598. 

manner of framing, 599. 

bridgings, 600. 

furring, 601. 

bay, oriel or swell windows, 602. 

necessity for chimney, fireplace or hearth permit, 603. 
no additional permit where building permit issued, 603. 
manner of applying for permit, 604. 

necessity for inspection before use, 605. 

fees for chimney or fireplace permit, 606. 

when basement or attic to count as one story, 607. 
construction of chimneys and flues, 608. 

fireplaces and chimney breasts, 609. 

open fireplaces, 610. 

patent chimneys, 611. 

fireplaces connected with patent chimneys or gas logs, 612. 
inside dimensions of patent chimneys, 613. 
smoke pipes, 614. 

unsafe stovepipes, 615. 

gas grates and logs, 616. 

steel cupola chimneys, 617. 

heating furnaces, 618. 

fireproof room for boilers or furnaces, 619. 

proximity of steam pipes to wood, 620. 

hot air boxes, 621. 

erection of steam boilers, furnaces, etc., 622. 
construction of building where steam boilers used, 623. 
fire escapes, 624. 

stand pipes, 625. 

passage to exits required in certain buildings, 626. 
awnings, 627. 

construction of masonry buildings, 628, 629, 635. 
thickness of walls, when brick masonry used, 630. 
thickness of party walls, 631. 

wall anchors, 632. 

wooden beams or timbers in party or other walls, 633. 
bond timbers, 634. 

drying rooms, 636. 

clothes chutes, 637. 

light wells, 638. 

private or water closets, 639. 


240 Index—References are to Sections. 


sheds, 640. 

removal of dangerous buildings, walls, chimneys or other struc- 
tures, 641. 

whether damaged 40 per cent. by fire, how determined, 641. 

repair or alteration of wooden buildings, 642. 

seuttles in roof, 648. 

openings in exterior or party walls, 644. 

garage within certain limits, 645. 

smoke houses, 646. : : 

occupation of building constructed or repaired in violation of law, 


648. 
right of council or building inspector to stop construction or re- 
pair, 649. 


BUILDING MATERIAL— 
on public streets, 109, 113. 
necessity for permit, 109. 
deposit as guarantee, 110. 
BUILDINGS— 
numbering of, 735, 741. 
moving along highway, 240. 
BULLETIN— 
may be used in lieu of newspaper advertising, 101. 
BULLS— 
use of, for purposes of propagation, 767. 
BURNING— 
of brush or refuse, 300. 
BUTTERMILK— 
sale of, 363. 
CALL CAPTAINS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT— 
salary of, 8. 
CAPTAINS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT— 
salary of, 8. 
CARD ROOMS— 
minors under 18 years barred from, 484, 486. 
closing time, 485. 
CARPET CLEANERS— 
licenses for, 512. 
CARRYING FIRE— 
where combustibles are stored, 304. 
CASHIER OF CORPORATION— 
to make tax statement, 30. 
CELLAR DRAINS— 
how to be constructed, 710. 
CELLAR OR BASEMENT— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
CEMENT MORTAR— 
test of, 574. 
CHRTIFICATHS— 
of sale at tax sale, 81. 
CESSPOOL— 
depositing rubbish, etc., in, 117. 
CHANGING OF ASSESSMENTS— 
by Board of Equalization, 50. 


Index—References are to Sections. 241 


CHICKENS AND OTHER FOWL— 
keeping of, 399. 
coops and enclosures to be sanitary, 400. 
allowing them to run at large, 122. 
allowing to run in public parks, 134. 
right to impound when trespassing, 407. 


CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT— 
creating office of, 285, 286. 
Baar VOr. no. 
CHIEF OF POLICE— 
duties of, 268, 269. 
Salary of, 7. 
to collect license taxes, 494. 
to furnish metallic tags with dog licenses, 417. 


CHIMNEYS AND FLUES— 
necessity for permit to construct or repair, 603. 
construction of, 608. 
construction of chimney breasts, 609. 
construction of patent chimneys, 611. 
steel cupola, 617. 


CHURCH— 
distance saloon to be from, 477. 


CIGARETTES— 
smoking of by minors, 765. 
selling of, to minors, 766. 
CIRCUS AND SIDE SHOW>--- 


licenses for, 513. 


CITY— 
when used in Code, means Alameda, 3. 


CITY ASSESSOR— 
see under Assessor. 


CITY ATTORNEY— 
salary of, 6. 
to commence action on assessor’s bond for taxes lost from wilfull 
neglect, 48. 
may consent to correction of harmless errors or omissions in. assess- 
ments, 98. 


CITY CLERK— 
salary of, 6. 
delivery of assessment book to him, 45. 
to give notice of delivery of assessment book to him, 45. 
to give notice of meetings of Board of Equalization, 45. 
to mail notice to property owner of hearings of proposed change 
of asessment by Board of Equalization, 50. 
where notices to be sent where address unknown, 50. 
to notify property owners by mail or express of investigations by 
Board of Equalization, 54. 
to keep record of changes made by Board of Equalization ,55. 
to enter upon assessment book all changes and corrections, 55. 
to make certain affidavit respecting assessment book, 55. 
copy of delinquent tax list to be filed with him, 76. 
CITY ELECTRICIAN— 
to be notified when wires to be cut for removal of building, 247. 
CITY ENGINEER— 
duties of, 14. 
necessity to keep records of surveys, 15. 
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242 Index—References are to Sections. 


right to collect fees and charges in addition to salary, 16. 
fees and charges allowed to make, 17. 
duty to post rates and fees, 18. 
official bond of, 19. 
CITY CE ALAMEDA 
property purchased by it at tax sale assessable, 96. 
collection of assessments, 96, 97. 
CITY OFFICIALS— 
not liable for damages from electrical construction work, 729. 
CITY PRISON— 
place of imprisonment for violation of Code, 792. 
conviction of a misdemeanor, 794. 
CLAIRVOYANTS— 
licenses for, 504. 
CLEANING WORKS— 
licenses for, 514. 
CLERK OF POLICE OFFICHE— 
Salary (Ol, le 
CLOSING TIME— 
for billiard, pool or card rooms, 485. 
for saloons, 488. 
CLOTHES CHUTES— 
construction of, 637. 
CODE— 
when to take effect, 795. 
not to affect ordinance passed after certain date, 796. 
COLLECTION— 
of delinquent taxes, 75. 
COMBUSTIBLE MATHERIAL— 
disposition of, 291, 292, 293. 
accummulations of, not allowed, 292, 297. 
COMMENCEMENT OF SUIT to recover taxes paid under protest, limit 
of time, 68. 
to be commenced in Superior Court, 63. 
COMMERCH, INTERSTATE— 
persons engaged in, exempted from license taxes, 546. 
CONCEALED PROPERTY— 
how assessed, 40. 
CONCEALED WEAPONS— Wy ans oro ado 
earrying of, 778. 
CONCEALING OR REMOVING PROPERTY— 
effect on assessment, 40. 
CONCRETE— 
test of, 576. 
CONDENSED MILK— 
sale of, 368. 
CONNECTION— ; 
with running water, occupied premises to be Kept in, 402. 
CONSENT OF OWNER— 
to post or paint signs on property, 787. 
such advertisements to be removed after notice, 788. 
of bill board necessary to post advertisement on, 749. 
CONSENT OF PROPERTY OWNERS— 


to removal of building, 241. 
not necessary when not moved on street, 241. 


Index—References are to Sections. 243 


CONSIGNED PROPERTY— 
how assessed, 35. 


CONSTRUCTION OF ORDINANCE— 
same as previously existing ordinances, 2. 
general rules of, 3. 
words importing singular or plural, 3. 
words importing masculine gender, 38. 
CONVICTION OF MISDEMEANOR— 
penalty for, 794. 
COOPS AND ENCLOSURES— 
for fowl, to be sanitary, 400. 
COPARTNERSHIP— 
how property of assessed, 38. 
property of need not be included by each when by one, 30. 
statement to show that already stated, 30. 
engaged in plumbing business, 665. 
CORPORATIONS— 
included in word person, 3. 
engaged in plumbing business, 665. 
property of, how assessed, 38. 
what officers to make tax statements, 30. 
property of need not be included by officer of when already stated, 30. 
CORRECTION— 
of delinquent tax lists by republication, 98. 
of harmless errors or omissions in assessments, 98, 100. 
COSTS OF PUBLICATION— 
of delinquent tax list, 77. 
COUNCIL— 
regular meetings of, 5. 
to grant and revoke permits to remove buildings, 242, 248. 
to furnish assessment blanks to assessor, 31. 
in capacity of Board of Equalization, 49. 
to investigate reasons for arbitrary assessments, 34. 
to deliver assessment book to auditor after levy, 58. 
not to reduce assessment where property wilfully concealed or 
misrepresented, 40. 
duty to protest that proposed tax sale is void, 95. 
COUNTY RECORDER— 
filing of copy of delinquent tax list with, 76. 
COWS— 
area for each cow Kept or picketed, 395, 396. 
limiting proximity to residence, 397. 
CREDITS— 
not secured by mortgage, assessment of, 29. 
CROSSINGS— 
of streets, how to be constructed, 105. 
CROW DS— 
in public streets, police to disperse, 120. 
CRUDE OIL WAGONS— 
rules respecting use of, 225. 
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS— 
punishment for, 768. 
CURBING— 
excepted from acceptance of street, 107. 
CURBS— 
grade and formation of, 104. 


244 Index—References are to Sections. 


CUSTODY— 
of property taken from prisoner by police, 278. 
of lost or stolen property placed with police, 272, 274. 
CRYSTAL GAZERS— 
licenses for, 504. 
DAIRY CATTLE— 
to be fed only wholesome food, 368. 
DAMAGE-— 
done by trespassing animals or fowl, 407. 
DANCING SCHOOLS— 
licenses for, 515. 
DANGEROUS DRIVING— 
of vehicles on public streets, 230. 
DANGEROUS STRUCTURES— 
notice to make safe, 298. 
DATUM LINE— 
of street grades, what constitutes, 104. 
DEAD ANIMALS— 
disposition of, 401. 
poundmaster to remove, when found on public streets, 433. 
not to be deposited in Bay of San Francisco, 265. 
DEAD LOAD— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
DEBTS— 
to be deducted from solvent credits in tax statements, 30. 
tax statements to show aggregate amount of, 30. 
how real property described in tax statements, 30. 


DEDICATION OF STREETS— 
by owners, effect of, 103. 
DEED— 
form and effect of tax deed, 87. 
by tax collector, costs to grantee, 89. 
cost when prepared by grantee, 89. 


DEFINITIONS— 
see specific term desired. 


DELINQUENT TAXES— 
when taxes become so, 62. 
publication of notice, when taxes become, 60. 
items to be charged against property, 79. 
list to remain on file with ‘tax collector, 73. 
how collected, 75. 
tax lists may be corrected by republication, 98. 


DELIVERY OF ASSESSMENT BOOK— 
to city clerk, 45. 


DELIVERY WAGONS OR AUTOS— 
licenses for, 541. 


DEMANDS AGAINST CITY— 
to be approved, rejected, or reported on by finance committee of 
council, 21. 
form, verification and filing of, 22. 
to be filed with city clerk when, 22. 
details to be set forth, 22. 
to be presented to departmental officer or board for peg Beco 21. 
when approved to be presented to city council, 21. 
manner of voting on by council, 23. 
city clerk to certify amount allowed to auditor, 23. 


Index—References are to Sections. 245 


manner of allowance by auditor, 23. 
filing of demand in office of auditor, 238. 
memorandum of demand allowed to be given claimant on request, 23. 
warrant on treasury, 23. 
certification of by library trustees and electricty board, 24. 
certification of by street superintendent and his deputy, 25. 
authority of street superintendent and his deputy to administer 
oaths for verification of, 25. 
certification of by police and fire chiefs, 26. 
authority of police and fire chiefs to administer verification oaths, 26. 
DENTISTS’ CUSPIDORS— 
how to be placed, 689. 
DEPARTMENT, BOARD OR OFFICERS— 
meaning when used in Code, 3. 
DEPOSITS OF MONEY— 
to be stated in tax statements, 30. 
DEPUTY FIRE MARSHALS— 
how appointed and removed, 287. 
duties, 287. 
DESCRIPTION OF LAND— ; 
in assessment by metes and bounds or other identifying description 
sufficient, 42. 
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY— 
necessary in tax statements, 30. 
DESK SEHRGEANTS— 
who shall act as such, 270. 
DETECTIVES— 
duties of, 270. 
Salary Ors uls 
DEVICES— 
use of gambling, 771. 
DICHK— 
playing of, in barred or barricaded house, 772. 
DIRK— 
carrying of concealed, 778. 
DISCOVMRY OPAPROPHRTY 
which has escaped taxation, 48. 
DISEASED ANIMALS— 
when to be destroyed by board of health, 383. 
DISORDERLY HOUSK— 
Keeping of, 760. 
leasing of, 760. 
DISORDERLY PLACHE— 
cause for revocation of liquor license, 480. 
DISPERSING— 
of crowds on public streets, 120. 
DISTURBING THE PEACE— 
offense of, 751. 
DIVIDING PARTITIONS— 
construction of, 595. 
DIVISION WALL— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


246 Index—References are to Sections. 


DOGS— 

afflicted with or suspected of rabies, 372-378. 

duty of custodian of dog which has bitten any person. 375. 

unlicensed dogs to be under leash, 412. 

care of dogs during oestruation or heat, 413. 

license fees for dogs, 415. 

to have collar and tag, 418. 

duplicate tags and how obtained, 419. 

‘ferocious dogs, 422. 

right of poundmaster to retake when improperly released, 434. 

for matter relating to poundmaster, see Poundmaster. 
DOMESTIC FOWL— 

Keeping of, 399. 
DOMINOES— 

playing of in barred or barricaded house, 772. 
DRAINAGE OR PLUMBING WORK— 

necessity for permit, 669. 


DRAINS FOR CELLARS— 
proper construction of, 710. 


DRIVER— 
term as used in article respecting traffic, 182. 


DRIVER OF POLICE PATROL— 
salary of, 7. 


DRIVERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT— 
both first and second-class, salary of, 8. 


DRUNKENNESS— 
offense of, 756. 


DRYING ROOMS— 
construction of, 636. 


DW ELLINGS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


DYEHING AND CLEANING WORKS— 
licenses for, 514. 


DYNAMITEH— 
manufacture of, 294. 


ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND THEIR INSTALLATION— 
necessity for electrical work to conform to regulations, 717. 
electrical constructors to register for certificate, 718. 
constructors to obtain certificate, 719. 
inspection of electric power or light and power plants, 720. 
necessity to obtain permit for electrical work, 721. 
application for inspection, 722. 
not to use electric current before inspection certificate issued, 723. 
temporary permit to use electricity before inspection, 723. 
additions or changes after inspection, 724. 
use of old material for alterations, 725. 
fee for permit, 726. 
inspection to be before lathing or sealing, 727. 
plumbing work to be in place before inspection, 727. 
rules of Board of Electricity, 728. 
poles and electrical wires to conform to ordinance, 731. 
how poles to be erected, 732. 
how wires for various purposes to be strung, 733. 


BHLECTRIC CARS— 
- see Street Cars. 


Index—References are to Sections. 247 


ELECTRIC CURRENT— 
not to be used before inspection certificate issued, 7238. 
ELECTRIC OVERHEAD WIRES— 
not to be allowed on certain streets, Ord. No. 5 N. S. Appendix. 
to be deemed public nuisances, Ord. No. 5, N. S. Appendix. 
to be removed by board of electricity, Ord. No. 5, N. S. Appendix. 


maintenance of, constitutes misdemeanor, Ord. No. 5, N. S. Appendix. 


electric railways exempted, Ord. No. 5, N. S. Appendix. 


poles and wires in use prior to Sept. 1, 1912, exempted, Ord. No. 


N. S. Appendix. 
ELECTRIC RAILWAYS— 


5, 


not to maintain poles or overhead wires, Ord. No. 4, N. S. Appendix. 


all overhead wires to be removed, Ord. No. 4, N. S. Appendix. 


board of electricity to remove poles and overhead wires, Ord. No. 4, 


N. S. Appendix. 


maintenance of, constitutes misdemeanor, Ord. No. 4, N. S. Appendix. 


fine for each day’s violation, Ord. No. 4, N. S. Appendix. 


construction under supervision of board of electricity, Ord. No. 


N. S. Appendix. 


exemption of power transmission poles and wires, Ord. No. 4, N. 


Appendix. 


4, 


S. 


such poles and wires to be deemed public nuisances, Ord. No. 4, N. S. 


Appendix. 

speed limit of electric cars, 234. 

motorman to sound gong at crossings, 235. 

cars or trains at crossings, 236. 
ELECTRICITY— 

see Electrical Appliances. 
ELECTRIC WIRERS AND FIXTURE INSTALLERS— 

license taxes for, 517. 
ELECTROLIERS— 

injuring or interfering with, 118. 
EMBALMERS— 

licenses for, 539. 
EMERGENCY REPAIR WAGONS— 

right of way of, on streets, 194. 
EMPLOYMENT OFFICES— 

licenses for, 520. 
ENGINEERS OF FIRE ENGINES— 

Salary, OL, 3. 
ENTER BUILDINGS— 

right of building inspector to, 561. 
EQUAL DISTRIBUTION— 

of weight on floors, 581. 
EQUALIZING OF ASSESSMENTS— 

by Board of Equalization, 50. 
ERECTION OF, FOR SALE OR TO LET— 

or other signs without permission, 789. 
ESCAPED ASSESSMENT— 

right of taxpayer to call attention of council to fact and how, 48. 
ESCAPEMENT FROM TAXATION— 

how much property to be assessed, 41. 
ESCAPING LAST ASSESSMENT— 

effect of on property, 41. 
ESTA TE— 

how property of, is assessed, 39. 


248 Index—References are to Sections. 


ESTRAYS— 
duties of poundmaster relative, 406. 
EVASION OF TAXES— 
by wilfully concealing or misrepresenting property, 40. 
discovery of property which has escaped taxation, 48. 
HVIDENCH— 
to be produced upon which to base reduction of assessment by 
Board of Equalization, 52. 
EXCAVATIONS— 
in public streets, rules regulating, 114. 
EXCHEPTING CLAUSH— 
in Municipal Code, 2. 
EXECUTOR, GUARDIAN OR ADMINISTRATOR— 
how such estates are assessed, 37. 
1X EMPTION— 
of interstate commerce from license taxes, 546. 
how improvements on tax exempted land are assessed, 42. 
of power transmission poles and wires from being placed under 
ground, Ord. No. 4, N. S. Appendix. 
EXITS— 
to theatres, 655. 
obstructions to, 659. 
necessity for passage to, in certain buildings, 626. 


EXPLOSIVES— 
storage and manufacture of, 2938, 294. 
EXPOSURE OF PERSON— 
as an offense, 757. 
EXPRESS-VEHICLES— 
licenses for, 541. 
EXTERIOR WALLS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
EX TINGUISHING— 
public lights or lights for public convenience or safety, 118. 
FAILURE TO SAFEGUARD DANGEROUS STRUCTURE— 
after notice, 298. 
FALSE FIRE ALARMS— 
giving of, 309. 
FALSE REPRESENTATION OF AGE BY MINOR— 
to keeper of saloon or billiard room, 487. 
FAMILY HNTRANCEHE— 
to saloons, 483. 
FAN-TAN TABLES— 
in barred or barricaded houses, 772. 
FAT OR TALLOW RENDERING PLANTS— 
maintenance of, 308. 
FRES— 
for building permits, 567. 
for permit for chimney, fireplace or hearth, 606. 
for plumbing permit and inspection, 669. 
for electrical permit, 726. 
board of electricity to collect fee for electrical permit, 726. 
for connecting sewers, 254. 
fees and charges allowable for city engineer to make, 17. 
to be charged by poundmaster, 427. 


Index—References are to Sections. 249 


FEMALE DOGS— 
eare of during heat, 413, 415, 416. 


FEMALES— 
included in words importing masculine, 3. 


FENCES— 
division or line fences over 6 feet high, necessity for permit, 742. 


FEROCIOUS DOGS— 
duty respecting, 422. 
FIGURES— 
initials and abbreviations may be used in assessments and the like, 
99. 


FIRE ALARM— 
interference with apparatus, 309. 
using water for irrigation after, 314. 


FIRE CRACKERS— 
what size permissible to be used, 780. 
what size may be sold, 781. 


FIRE DEPARTMENT— 
organization of, 285. 
officers of, 285. 
salaries of officers and employees, 8. 
right of way of fire department on streets, 194, 214, 218. 
interference with fire alarm system, 138. 


FIRE ESCAPES— 
how to be constructed, 624. 


FIRE HYDRANTS— 
obstructing of, 311. 


FIRE LIMITS— 
hay yards, planing mills, lumber yards within, 
factories and steam boilers within, 296. 
match factory, 307. 
storage of hay or straw within, 308. 
storage of petroleum products, 316-327. 
exclusion of wood and frame buildings, 585. 


FIRE LINES— 
in case of fire, 312. 
breaking through, 313. 


FIREMAN— 
personating of, 777. 


FIRE MARSHAL— 
chief engineer is ex-officio, 286. 
duties of, 288. 
no salary attached to office, 286. 
right to enter upon premises, 289. 
right to appoint deputies, 287. 
to require dangerous structures to be safeguarded, 298. 
to give notice to safeguard dangerous structures, 298. 
duty relative to unoccupied buildings, 299. 
permit from, to kindle bonfire, 301. 
permit from to burn rubbish on street, 302. 
to report on applications to store petroleum products, 318. 
FIREPLACES— 
necessity for permit to construct or repair, 603. 
construction of, 609. 
connected with patent chimneys or gas logs, 612. 


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250 Index—-References are to Sections. 


FIRE PROOF ROOM— 
for boilers or furnaces, 619. 
DERE PROTHCLON— 
to theatres, 660. 
FIRE WALL— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
FIRE WORKS— 
discharging of, 780. 
necessity for permit from mayor, 780. 
prohibiting sale of, 781. 
FIRM OR CORPORATION— 
engaged in plumbing business, 665. 
DERM PROP BR y= 
how assessed, 88. 
FIRST ASSISSTANT ENGINE RBR— 
of fire department, salary of, 8. 
FIRST INSTALEMENT OF TAXHS— 
when delinquent, 62. 
ELASH THST— 
of petroleum products, 316. 
PLATS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
ELOOR JOISTS— 
construction of, 593. 
FLOORS— 
strength’ of, 577. 
equal distribution of weight on floors, 581. 
FLUSHING PLUMBING PIPES— 
duty of, 408. 
FOOD— 7 
sale of unwholesome, 339, 340. 
FORM— 
of affidavit of auditor as to corrected assessment book, 59. 
of tax deed, 87. 
of tax receipts, 61. 
of personal property tax receipts, 70. 
FOR SALE OR TO LET SIGNS— 
without permission of owner, 790. 
such signs to be removed on expiration of permission, 790. 
FORTUNE TELLERS, PHRENOLOGISTS— 
licenses for, 504. 
FOUNDATION WALLS— 
thickness of, 590. 
FOW L— 
Keeping of, 399. 
coops and enclosures to be sanitary, 400. 
allowing to run at large on streets or unfenced lots, 122. 
allowing to run in public parks, 134. 
right to impound trespassing -fowl, 407. 
FRAME BUILDING 
defined, 583. 
FRANCHISES— 
assessment of, 29. 


Index—References are to Sections. 251 


FREE LICENSES— 
to be separately assessed, 42. 
see Gratuitous Licenses. 
FUNERAL PARLORS— 
licenses for, 539. 
FURNACES— 
construction of, 618. 
FURNISHERS OF GAS REGULATORS— 
licenses for, 519. 
FURRING— 
in building construction work, 601. 
GAMBLING— 
in general, 770. 
letting house for purposes of, 770. 
inmates and visitors of gambling houses, 770. 
nickel-in-the-slot and other mechanical devices, 771. 
gambling devices in barred or barricaded houses, 772. 
visiting barred or barricaded gambling houses, 773. 
possession of lottery tickefs or implements, 744. 
presence in room as constituting possession of articles therein, 75. 
GAMES OF CHANCE— 
playing of 771. 
GARBAGE— 
see Sanitary Regulations. 
GARAGE— 
maintenance of within fire limits, 645. 
license for keeper of public, 518. 
GARDENS— 
maintenance in public streets, 124. 
GAS GRATES AND LOGS— 
maintenance and construction of, 616. 
GENERAL ORDINANCES— 
repealed by Code, 2. 
GENERAL SPEED LIMIT— 
of vehicles, 204. 
exception as to physicians responding to call, 204. 
GIRDERS AND BEAMS— 
strength of, 580. 
GLANDERS— 
animals afflicted with, 382. 
board of health authorized to destroy such animals, 388. 
GONGS— 
motorman to sound at street crossings, 235. 


GRASS— 

as fire menace, see Weed Ordinance. 
GRATUITOUS LICENSHES— 

to whom issued,’ 489. 

how applied for, 490. 

revocable and not assignable, 491. 
GUARANTEE— 

deposit on issuance of permit to obstruct street as, 110. 
GUARDIANS— 

how ward’s estate is assessed, 37. 
GUN POWDER— 

storage of, 293. 


252 Index—References are to Sections. 


HACKS— 
licenses for, 541. 
HAND-CARTS— 
allowed to stand on sidewalks except on certain streets, 224. 
HAND BILLS, DODGERS AND ADVERTISING MATTHR— 
distribution of, 784. 
license for, 516. 
HARD THRRA COTTA FIRE PROOFING— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
HARMLESS OMISSIONS OR ERRORS— 
in assessment are curable, 98, 100. 
HAULING GARBAGE VEHICLES— 
through public streets, 207. 
HAY AND STRAW— 
safe guarding from fire, 297. 
storage of within fire limits, 308. 
HAY YARDS— 
within fire limits, 295. 
HEALTH-— 
see Public Health. 
HHARTHS AND FIRE PLACES— 
necessity for permit, to construct or repair, 608. 
HEAT— 
care of dogs during period of, 413, 415, 416. 
HEATING FURNACES— 
construction of, 618. 
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS— 
limitation to, 587. 
HIDING PROPHERTY— 
effect on its assessment for taxes, 40. 
HOLIDAY— 
meeting of council on, 5. 
HORSEHS— 
term horse as used in article respecting traffic, 180. 
Keeping of within certain distance of residence, 388. 
leaving unattended on street, 208. 
hitching to shade trees, lamp posts, etc., 209. 
feeding on streets, 210. 
driving unbroken or dangerous, on streets, 212. 
afflicted with glanders, 382, 383. 
HOSEMEN AND TRUCKMEN— 
of fire department, salary of, 8. 
HOSPITAL, SANATARIUM OR SANITORIUM— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
licenses for, 531. 
see Maternity Hospitals. 
HOT AIR BOXHS— 
: construction of, 621. 
HOTEL— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
HOUSE OF ILL FAME OR PROSTITUTION— 
Keeping of, 760. 
being inmate of, 760. 
leasing for purposes of, 760. 
pandering to, 760. 


Index—References are to Sections. 253 


HOWLING DOGS— 
harboring of, 753. 
HYDRO CARBONS— 
storage of. See Petroleum Products. 
HY DROPHOBIA— 
see Rabies. 
HY PNOTISTS— 
licenses for performance by, 504. 
ILLEGALLY COLLECTED TAXES— 
to be refunded, 90. 
ILLEGALITY— 
of part of Code, not to affect balance, 3. 
ILL FAME— 
see House of Ill Fame. 
IMMORAL ADVERTISEMENTS— 
on bill boards, 747. 
IMPRISONMENT— 
in satisfaction of fine, when, 794a. 
IMPROVEMENT AND REPAITR— 
of accepted streets, 105. 
IMPURE FOODS— 
see Public Health. 
INDEX TO ASSESSMENT— 
must show name of tax payer and page, 44. 
INDECENT ADVERTISEMENTS— 
on bill boards, 747. 
INDUCING PROSTITUTION— 
offense of, 760. 
INFORMALIT Y— ? 
in assessments or tax matters, 100. 
INITIALS, FIGURES AND ABBREVIATIONS— 
use of in tax assessments, 99. 
INJURING PROPERTY— 
of police or fire department, 310. 
INMATE-— 
of house of prostitution, 760. 
INSPECTORS OF LICENSES— 
police officers as assistant, 545. 
INTEMPERATE HABITS— 
selling liquor to such person, 481. 
INTERSTATE COMMERCH— 
persons engaged in exempted from license tax, 546. 
INTERFERENCE WITH FIRE ALARM— 
or police telegraph, 309. 
INTOXICATING LIQUORS— 
necessity for license to sell, 470. 
necessity to display license, 471. 
license not assignable without permission, 472. 
requisites in application for license, 473. 
necessity to furnish bond and terms thereof, 474. 
term of license, 475. 
revocation of license granted, 475. 
license fees and when payable, 476. 
distance of saloon from school, 477. 
business confined to licensed one except tobacco, 478. 


254 Index—References are to Sections. 


license applicable to one place only, 479. 
keeping of disorderly place, cause for revocation of license, 480. 
causes for revocation of license, 480. 
amount of license fee, 481. 
exemption of druggists and wholesalers, 481. 
prescription usable only once, 481. 
prescription of liquor to persons of known intemperate habits, 481. 
manner in which liquors to be sold, 483. 
no sales adjoining places, 483. 
ladies or family entrance to saloons, 483. 
back-rooms, side-rooms and upper rooms, 4838. 
private entrance to saloons, 4838. 
selling liquor to hotel guests, 483. 
closing time for saloon, 483. 
minors under 18 years to be barred from saloons, 484. 
selling liquor to minors under 18 years, 486. 
false representation of age of minor, 487. 
TRREGULARITIES— 
effect of where found prior to tax sale, 92. 
ITHMS— 
to be charged against property sold for delinquent taxes, 79. 
JACKS— 
use of, for purposes of propagation, 767. 
JOINT AUTHORITY— 
as authority to majority, 3. 
JOISTS, FLOOR— 
construction of, 593. 
JOURNEYMAN PLUMBER— 
defined, 665. 
JUDICIAL SAP E— 
auctioneers at, exempted from license, 505. 
JUMPING TRAINS— 
prohibited, 7638. 
JUNK DEALERS— 
licenses for, 521. 
JUSTICE OF PEACH— 
has jurisdiction of suit of claimant to unclaimed property, 278. 
KEEPERS— 
of billiard rooms, license tax, 760. 
KEEPING— 
of house of ill fame or prostitution, 760. 
KILLING BIRDS— 
prohibited, 769. 
LADIES’ ENTRANCE— 
to saloon, 483. 
LAMP POST— 
injuring or breaking, 118. 
LANGUAGE— 
uttering obscene, 752. 
causing breach of peace, 7538. 
use of riotous language, 754. 
LAND EXEMPTED— 
from taxation, how taxable improvements are to be assessed, 42. 
such land not to be chargeable for tax on improvements, 42. 
LANTERNS— 
to be placed on obstructions in street, 114. 


Index—References are to Sections. 255 


LARCEN Y— 
of electricity belonging to city, 139. 
LAST INSTALLMENT OF TAXES— 
when delinquent, 62. 
may be paid when first installment paid, 60. 


LATHING OR SHEATING— 
to notify building inspector, when ready for, 562. 


LAUNDRIES— 
see Public Laundries. 
LAWFUL NOTICES— 
not to be defaced or destroyed, 785. 


LEADERS— 
for rain water, 709. 


LEASING OF PREMISES— 
for gambling purposes, 770. 
as a disorderly house or house of ill fame, 760. 


LEGAL NOTICES— 
not to be destroyed or defaced, 785. 


LICENSES— 
free or gratuitous licenses, 489. 
how applications for gratuitous lincenses made, 490. 
gratuitous licenses revocable and not assignable, 491. 
necessity for license in various trades, etc., 492. 
auditor to furnish blanks, tags, 493. 
auditor to keep accounts of licenses, 493. 
each day’s violation of license law a separate offence, 492. 
chief of police to collect license taxes, 494. 
license taxes payable in advance, 495. 
pro-rating of license taxes, 495. 
commencement of license term, 495. 
penalty for failure to obtain license, 496. 
not assignable without permission, 497. 
to display license, 498. 
punishment not in lieu of tax, 499. 
separate license for each place of business, 500. 
where several occupations or businesses combined, 501. 
rates for licenses— 
street or steam railroad car advertisers, 508. 
fortune tellers, phrenologists, etc., 504. 
mediums, 504. 
palmists, 504. 
auctioneers, 505. 
public gardens, parks or recreation grounds, 506. 
public bathhouse keepers, 507. 
billiard, pool and bagatelle tables, 508. 
bowling alleys and box ball courts, 509. 
brewers and beer bottlers, 510. 
bottlers of non-intoxicants, 511. 
carpet cleaners and vacuum cleaners, 512. 
circus and side show proprietors, 513. 
dyeing and cleaning works, 514. 
dancing schools, 515. 
hand bill and sample distributors, 516. 
electric wirers and fixtures installers, 517. 
garage keepers, 518. 
furnishers of gas regulators, 519. 
keepers of employment offices, 520. 
junk dealers, 521. 


256 Index——References are to Sections. 


livery or boarding stable keepers, 522. 
keepers of merry-go-rounds, 528. 
money loaners, 524. 
keepers of museums, 525. 
patent medicine venders, 526. 
pawnbrokers, 527. 
peddlers and street venders, 528. 
theatres, moving picture shows, 529. 
keepers of public scales, 530. 
hospitals and sanatoriums, 531. 
lying-in hospitals, 531. 
shooting galleries, 532. 
skating rinks, 533. 
solicitors, 534. 
book agents, 535. 
sparring or boxing shows, 536. 
peanut venders, 5387. 
towel furnishers, 5388. 
undertakers or embalmers, 539. 
veterinary hospitals, 540. 
transportation vehicles of various kinds, 541. 
warehousemen, 542. 
wharfingers, 548. 
water service companies, 5438a. 
duty to furnish sworn statement when tax dependent on amount of 
business, 544. 
police officers as assistant inspectors, 545. 
persons engaged in interstate commerce exempted, 546. 
to sell intoxicating liquors, 474. 
see also matter under Bill Boards. 
LIEN OF TAXES— 
attaches as of first Monday in March, 57. 
of taxes not removed until payment or sale of property affected, 57. 
of city is vested in purchase at tax sale, 82. 
cost of removing weeds, etc., as, on real estate, 463. 
LIFH READERS— 
license tax for, 504. 
LIGHTED CIGARS— 
in room where moving picture machine operated, 305. 
LIGHT WELLS— 
construction of; 639. 
LIME MORTAR— 
test jof, 5.72, 575. 
LIMITATION— 
of six months within which to recover taxes paid under protest, 63. 
LIQUID SUBSTANCES— 
how to be transported along street in vehicles, 226. 
LIQUORS— 
see Intoxicating Liquors. 
LIVE LOAD— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
LIVERY AND BOARDING STABLES— 
maintenance of, 392. 
licenses for, 522. 
LODGING HOUSHE— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


Index—References are to Sections ,257 


LOITERING— 
about streets after midnight, 761. 

LOST, STOLEN OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY— 
disposition when in custody of police, 272, 273, 274. 
sale of unclaimed property by city treasurer, 275. 
right to litigate claims in justice court, 278. 

LOTTERY TICKETS OR IMPLEMENTS— 
having them in possession, 744. 

‘presence in room containing, 774. 

LOUNGING ON SHORE— 
without bathing suit, 758. 

LUMBER YARDS— 
within fire limits, 295. 

LYING IN HOSPITALS— 
see Maternity Hospitals. 

MAJORITY OF BOARD— 
authority to act, 3. 

MANAGING AGENT— 
of corporation to make tax statement, 30. 

MANHOLE— 
depositing rubbish, etc., in, 117. 

MANUFACTURE OF ACIDS AND EXPLOSIVES— 
regulations concerning, 294. 

MANURE— 
storage of, 389, 390, 393, 394. 

MAP OF ALFRED BANNISTER— 
streets shown on, declared public streets, 103. 

MARCH— 
property held on first Monday in, taxable, 30. 

MASCULINE GENDER— 
as including females and boards, 3. 

MASONRY— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 

MASONRY BUILDING— 
construction of, 629. 
to comply with ordinance, 635. 

MASTER PLUMBER— 
defined, 665. 
qualifications, 666. 

MATCH FACTORY— 
within fire limits, 307. 

MATERNITY HOSPITALS— 
to obtain permit to maintain, 452. 
to keep register of patients, births and children adopted, 453. 
notification of health authorities, 454. 

MEATS— 
sale of diseased meat, 339. 

MECHANICAL GAMBLING DEVICES— 
maintenance of, 771. 

MEDIUMS— 
license tax for, 504. 

MEETINGS OF COUNCIL— 
when held, 5. 
as Board of Equalization, 49. 


285 Index—References are to Sections 


MERE INFORMALLSTY— 
in assessments or tax matters not material, 100. 
MERRY-GO-ROUNDS— 
licenses for, 523. 
METES AND BOUNDS— 
or other description sufficient to identify, sufficient for assessment, 
42. 
MIDWIVES TO REGISTER— 
with Board of Health, 331. 


MILK REGULATIONS— 
see Public Health. 


MINORS— 
not to get on or off moving cars, 238. 
smoking cigarettes, 765. 
selling cigarettes to, 766. 
not to be out at night, 762. 


MINORS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE— 
barred from saloons, 484, 486. 
barred from billiard, pool or card rooms, 484. 
falsely representing age to proprietor of saloon or billiard room, 487. 


MISCHIEF— 
injuring grass plots or borders along sidewalks, 135. ’ 
defacing, writing or drawing in or on public buildings or property, 
SiGe 
MISDEMEANOR— 
violation of any provisions of Code, 793. 
penalty for conviction of, 794. 
alternative privilege of satisfying fine by imprisonment, 794a. 
MISNOMER— | 
of owner of property, effect on tax sale, 93. 
MISTAKE— 
in name of owner of property assessed, effect of, 29. 
in tax sale immaterial where tax proper, 93. 
MONEY LOANERS— 
licenses for, 524. 
MORTAR OR CONCRETE— 
on streets or sidewalks, 113. 
MOTOR VEHICLES— 
regulations respecting use of on streets, 179. 
to maintain signals or gongs, 220. 
to display front and rear lights. 2247 
MOVING BUILDING— 
when and what consent of other property owners necessary, 241. 
MOVING CARS— 
not to get on or oft, 238: 
MOVING PICTURE HOUSES— 
building regulations relating to, see Theatres. 
licenses for, 529. 
lighted cigars or fires in operators’ room, 305. 
necessity to have chemical fire extinguisher, 306. 
MUNICIPAL CODE—- 
name of ordinance No. 1 new series, 1. 
publication of, in book form, 4. 
repeals all general ordinances, 2. 
does not abate or affect pending suits, 2. 


Index—References are to Sections 259 


does not impair or interfere with accrued or vested rights, 2. 
does not affect franchises, 2. 
when to take effect, 795. 
MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC SYSTEM— 
interference with wires or apparatus of, 138, 
using electricity belonging to city, 139. 
MUNICIPAL PROPERTY— 
injuring property of police or fire department, 309, 310. 


MUSEUMS— 
licenses for, 525. 
NAME OF MUNICIPAL CODE— 
title of compiled ordinance, 1, 2. 


NAME OF TAX PAYER— 
to be shown by index to assessment book, 44. 


NEGLECT OR REFUSAL— 
to render tax statement to assessor, 34. 

NEWSPAPER— 
official, to publish notice of meeting of board of equalization, 45. 
advertising may be substituted by a bulletin, 101. 


NICKEL-IN-THE-SLOT MACHINES— 
or other mechanical gambling devices, 771. 


NIGHT— 
roaming or loitering about, at, 761. 
minors wandering about streets at, 762. 


NIGHT SERGEANT— 
whom to act and duties, 270. 


NOTICH— 
when taxes shall become delinquent, what it shall contain, 60. 


NOTICHS— 
legal ones not to be destroyed or defaced, 785. 


NUDE FIGURES— 
on bill boards, 747. 


NUISANCES—- 
“permitting poison oak to grow, 465. 
certain trees endangering sewers or sidewalks, 466. 
how trees to be removed, 467. 
distribution of poisonous drugs in public places, 468. 
overhead poles and wires, see Ord. Nos. 4 and 5 N. S. in Appendix. 


NUMBERING OF BUILDINGS— 

system of numbering to be followed, 735. 

whose duty to number buildings, 736. 

when to be done, 736. 

at whose expense, 737. 

size and character of figures, 738. 

incorrect and lliegible numbers, 739. 

notice to correct, 739. 

building inspector to give correct number, 740. 
OAKLAND HARBOR— 

no dyes or acids to be deposited in, 266. 
OATH— 

of tax collector to tax payments made, 72. 

of tax collector to correctness of list of delinquents, 74. 

tax statements to be made under, 30. 
OBSCENE LANGUAGE— 

uttering of, 752. 


260 Index—-References are to Sections 


OBSCENE WRITINGS— 
defacement of public buildings or property, 136. 
OBSTRUCTIONS— 
on streets or sidewalks, 109, 118. 
OCCUPANT— 
includes whom, 3. 
OCCUPATION OF BUILDINGS— 
constructed in violation’ of law, 647. 
OESTRUATION— 
- eare of dogs during period of, 413, 415, 416. 
OFFENSIVE ADVERTISEMENTS— 
on bill boards, 747. 
OFFICE BUILDING— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
OF FICHR— 
includes boards and members thereof,’ 3. 
OFFICH SERGEANTS— 
who shall act as such, 270. 'Z, 
OFFICIAL BONDS— 
mayor, 19. 
city clerk, 19. 
treasurer and ex-officio tax collector, 19. 
city attorney, 19. 
auditor and assessor, 19. 
street superintendent, 19. 
city engineer, 19. 
chief of police, 19. 
building inspector, 19. 
poundmaster, 435. 
application of state law to, 20. 
liability of assessor and his deputies, 47, 48. 
OFFICIALS— 
their duties, salaries and fees, 6. 
OFFICIAL STREET MAP— 
made by Alfred Bannister, 103. 
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER— : 
notice of meeting of Board of Equalization, to be published therein, 
45. 
delinquent tax notice to be published in, 60. 
OLD BRICKS— 
when used for building purposes, 570. 
OLD MATEHRIAL— 
when may be used in electrical work, 725. 
OMNIBUS— 
licenses for, 541. 
ON OR OFF— 
from moving cars, not to get, 238. 
OPEN FIRE PLACES— 
to have arched heads, 610. 
OPERA HOUSES— 
building rules and regulations. See under Theatres. 
OPIUM— 
joints, 759. 
smoking, 759. 


Index—References are tc Sections 


ORIEL, BAY OR SWELL WINDOWS— 
construction of, 602. 
OVERHEAD POLES AND WIRES— 


see Blectric Railways and Electric Overhead Wires. 


OVERTAKING VEHICLES— 
rules applying, 187, 188. 
OWNER OF BUILDING— 
includes whom, 3. 
OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY— 
when unknown, how assessed, 35, 36. 
PALMISTS— 
Yicense tax for, 504. 
PANDERING— 
to prostitution, 760. 
PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS— 
includes what, 3. 
PARTIAL ILLEGALITY— 
or unconstitutionality of Code, effect of, 3. 
PARTIALLY BURNED BUILDINGS— 
when to be removed, 641. 
how extent of damage to be ascertained when 
PARTIAL REDEMPTION— 
right to make, 84. 
PARTITIONS— 
construction of, 595. 
PARTITION WALLS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


necessity for permit when over 6 feet high, 742. 


PARTNERSHIP PROPERTY— 
how to be shown in tax statements, 30. 
how assessed, 38. 
PARTY WALLS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
thickness of, 631. 
openings in, 644. 
PASSING OTHER VEHICLES— 
rules applying, 187. 
PATENT CHIMNEYS— 
construction of, 611. 
inside dimensions of, 6138. 
PATENT MEDICINE VENDERS— 
licenes for, 526. 
PATROLMEN— 
salary of, 7. 


disputed, 641. 


PAWNBROKERS AND SECOND HAND DEALERS— 


duty to Keep certain records, 280. 

matters to be placed in records, 280. 

to send copy of entries to chief of police, 281. 
openness of record book to police inspection, 
to keep pledged articles for ten days, 288. 
licenes for, 527. 


PAYMENT OF TAXES— 
under protest, 638. 


on particular lot or piece separate from whole assessment, 64. 


282. 


261 


262 Index—-References are to Sections. 


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PHACH— 
disturbing of, 751. 
PHACH OFFICEKR— 
personating of, 777. 
PEANUT VENDERS— 
licenses for, 537. 


PEDDLERS AND STREET VENDERS— 
licenes for, 528. 
carts not to stand on streets or sidewalks, 224. 


PENALTIES— 

see various offenses. 

places of imprisonment for violation of Code, 792. 

for conviction of misdemeanor, 794. 

alternative privilege of satisfying fine by imprisonment, 794a. 

added to taxes on becoming delinquent, 60. 

recovered for failure to give assessor information belongs to treas- 
urer, 33. 

person refusing to furnish statement when required by assessor, 33. 

when property wilfully concealed, demoved or misrepresented to 
evade taxation, 40. 


PERMITS— 
for construction or repair of buildings, 556. 
building permits to be exhibited to authorities, 560. 
necessity for, to place building materials or other obstructions on 
street, 109. 
deposit as guarantee, 110. 
for removal of building along street, 242. 
revocation of removal permit, 248. 
for demolition of building, 564. 
fees for building permits, 567. 
to alter or repair wood frame buildings, 584. 
to construct or repair chimney, fire place or breast, 603. 
to obtain for electrical work, 721. 
issuance of temporary permit to use CUrrenitie Taos 
fee for electrical permit, 726. 
for plumbing or drainage work, 669. 
no excuse for damages from electrical construction work, 729. 
for construction of division of line fences over 6 feet high, 742. 
for construction of partition walls over 6 feet high, 742. 
for factory or steam boiler within fire limits, 296. 
for burning brush or refuse, 300, 302. 
bonfires, 301. 
necessity to store petroleum products, 316. 
necessity for, to allow vehicles to stand on streets, 223. 
necessity to interfere with trees in streets or public places, 130. 
to store more than one ton of manure, 393, 
to maintain maternity hospitals, 452. 
Keeping dead human bodies without, 334. 
removal of dead human bodies, 335. 
to vend milk, 346. 
necessity for, to carry concealed weapon, 778. 
to discharge fireworks or firearms, 780. 
PERSON— 
includes corporations, firms or co-partnerships, 8. 
indecent exposure of, 757. 
PERSONAL PROPERTY— 
when to be assessed, 65. 


Index—References are to Sections. 263 


PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES— 
how collected when unsecured, 66. 
when due and payable, 62. 
PERSONATING POLICE OR FIREMAN— 
constitutes an offense, 777. 
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS— 
city ccucil to grant permits to store over 300 gallons, 316. 
notice of application to be posted, 317. 
fire marshal to report on, 318. 
storage of quantities up to 5 gallons, 319. 
storage of quantities not exceeding 300 gallons, 320. 
storage of over 500 gallons, 321. 
plans of tanks of over 300 gallons to be presented to council, 322. 
plans and specifications, 323. 
care during night time while in transit, 324. 
how storage tanks to be filled or emptied, 325. 
installation of plants burning petroleum products, 326. 
metallic cans for small quantities, 327. 
exemption of automobiles from regulations, 328. 
each day’s violation a separate offense, 329. 
PETROLEUM WAGONS— 
rules respecting use of, 225. 
PHYSICIANS AND MIDWIVES— 
to register with Board of Health. See Public Health, 331. 
PICKING FLOWERS— 
in parks or public places, 131. 
PIGS— 
keeping of, 398. 
PIPES— 
laying of in streets, 143, 144. 
laying of gas or water pipes, 147. 
PISTOL— 
carrying of concealed, 778. 
PITCH AND STRENGTH— 
of roofs, 578. 
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT— 
construction of. See Theatres. 
PLACES OF DEPOSIT— 
of money to be stated in tax statements, 30. 
PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT— 
for violation of Code, 792. 
PLACE OF SALE— 
of property for delinquent taxes, 75. 
PLANING MILLS— 
within fire limits, 295. 
PLAYING BASE BALL— 
on certain places, 764. 
PLUMBER, MASTER AND JOURNEYMAN— 
defined, 665. 
See also Plumbing Regulations. 
PLUMBING PIPES— 
duty to flush, 403. 


Index—References are to Sections. 


264 


PLUMBING REGULATIONS— 
necessity for master and journeymen plumbers to register, 664. 
master and journeyman plumber, defined, 665. 
master plumber’s qualifications, 666. 
expiration of certificates, registration, 667. 
bonds required of master plumber, 668. 
plumbing inspector to be notified of plumbing work, 669. 
fees for permit and inspection, 669. 
plumbing inspector to approve plans and specifications, 669. 
plans and specifications to be filed with Board of Health, 669. 
fees for permit and inspection, 669. 
duty to notify inspector before covering work, 669. 
certificate of final inspection, 670. 
revocation of certificate as penalty for violation of ordinance, 671. 
necessity for work to conform to rules, 672. 
quality of material, 673. 
arrangement of soil and waste pipes, 674. 
soil and waste pipes and connections, 675. 
cast iron soil or sewer pipe under ground, 676. 
waste pipes to discharge into house sewer, 677. 
testing of pipes, 678. 
fittings and waste pipes, 679. 
vent pipes of fixtures, 680. 
size of vent pipes where several unite, 681. 
distance of vent pipes from openings, 682. 
slop hoppers and vents, 688. 
removal of old sewers, 684. 
two buildings upon one lot, 685. 
surface drains, 686. 
safe wastes, 687. 
refrigerators, ice boxes, etc., 688. 
dentists’ cuspidors, how placed, 689. 
minimum plumbing service in tenements, flats and stores, 690. 
urinals, 691. 
unsanitary condition of buildings, 692. 
vent pipes of water closets, 693. 
return vents, 694. 
water closets located in yards, 695. 
connections of house sewers with main sewers, 696. 
vent cowells to be furnished, 697. 
size of waste pipes of baths, wash trays, etc., 698. 
waste pipes, defined, 699. 
soil pipes, defined, 700. 
when a washtray and sink abut, 701. 
bell traps, 792. 
urinal and water closet floor drain, 703. 
waste pipes of three or more fixtures, 704. 
architectural conditions preventing full compliance, 705. 
traps protected, 706. 
water closets, construction of, 707. 
how vent pipes to be run, 708. 
rain water leaders, 709. 
cellar drains, 710. 
plug, fan or hopper closets, 711. 
tests of plumbing system, 712. 
drains on decks, light wells, ete., 718. 
joints of cast iron, 714. 
extra heavy cast iron pipe, 715. 
plumbing work not to be concealed until electrical work inspected, 
C2 
duty to flush plumbing pipes, 403. 


Index—References are to Sections. 265 


PLUMING SYSTEM— 
how to be tested, 712. 


POISON OAK— 
allowing to grow, as a nuisance, 465. 
POISONOUS DRUGS— 
in public places, 468. 
POLES AND WIRES— 
necessity to conform to ordinance, 731. 
poles to be erected under direction of committee on streets, 732. 
what side of street poles for light and power purposes, 132. 
' what side of street poles for telephone and other purposes, 732. 
what distance circuit poles to be apart, 732. 
how wires for various purposes to be strung, 733. 
how wires to be installed, 733. 
battery and feed wires, 733. 
light and power wires not to be in circuit with trolly wires, 7338. 
posting of advertisements on, not allowed, 749. 
when to be placed underground. See BHiectric Overhead Wires and 
Electric Railways. 


POLICE— 
disposition of property taken from prisoners, 273. 
to enforce traffic regulations, 232. 
vehicles subject to orders of when at crossings or rounding cor- 
ners loo. 
bicycles or motorcycles of police exempt from lights, 222. 
right of way of police over street cars, 214, 218. 
right to disperse crowds on public streets, 120. 
to guard streets in case of fire, 312. 
to kill ferocious dogs, 422. 
as assistant inspectors of licenses, 545. 
pawnbrokers to send copies of entries in their records to, 281. 


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offense of personating police officer, 777. 
POLICE DEPARTMENT— 
salaries of officers and members, 7. 
duty to enforce ordinances, 268. 
how sergeants and detectives to be detailed, 269. 
duties of sergeants and detectives, 270. 
chief of police as custodian of lost and stolen property, 271. 
duty on receiving property in custody, 272, 273. 
right of way of police department vehicles in streets, 194, 214, 218. 
POLICE SYSTEM OR FIRE ALARM WIRES— 
not to be interfered with, 783. 
POLICE TELEGRAPH— 
or fire alarm apparatus, interference with, 309. 
POLICE WHISTLES— 
improper use of, 776. 
POOL ROOMS— 
minors under 18 years barred from, 484, 486. 
POOL TABLES— 
keepers of, license tax for, 508. 
PORTLAND CEMENT— 
test of, 573: 
POSSESSION OF KEYS TO POLICE 
or fire signal boxes, right to have, 309. 
POUNDMASTER AND HIS DUTIES— 
establishment of public pound, 405. 
duties of poundmaster, 406. 


266 


Index—References are to Sections. 


to keep record of impounded animals, 408. 

what animals to be impounded, 406. 

to provide food and water for animals impounded, 408, 421. 
requirements in regard to advertising, 409. 
sale of impounded animals and disposition of proceeds, 410, 432. 
postponement of sale, 4380. 

right to redeem before sale, 411, 431. 

unlicensed dogs to be under leash, 412. 

care of dogs during oestruation, 413, 415, 416. 

right of any person to take up dog during oestruation, 416. 
dog licenses, 414. 

untagged dogs, 415. 

license fees, 415. 

chief of police to furnish metallic tags to licenses, 417. 

dogs to have collar and tag, 418. 

duplicate tags, 419. 

to furnish monthly reports, 420. 

office hours of, 429. 

poundmaster under supervision of street committee of council, 429. 
to remove dead animals found in public streets, 433. 

right to retake animals improperly released, 434. 

bond of poundmaster, 435. 

right to appoint deputies, 420. 

duty respecting ferocious dogs, 422. 

poundmaster to wear badge of office, 423. 

resisting poundmaster, 424. 

to notify owner of impounded animal, 426. 

fees to be charged by poundmaster, 427, 428. 

salary of poundmaster, 9. 


POWER WIRES— 


to be placed underground. See Electric Overhead Wires. 


PRESCRIPTION— 


usable only once, 481. 


PRESIDENT OF CORPORATION— 


to make tax statement, 30. 


PRIVATE ENTRANCES— 


to saloons, 483. 


PRIVATE PREMISES— 


depositing of rubbish, garbage, etc., on, 117. 


PRIVILEGE OF SATISFYING FINE— 


by imprisonment, when, 794a. 


PRIVY VAULTS— 


not to be maintained after construction of sewer, 251. 


PROCEDURE FOR COLLECTION— 


of delinquent taxes, 75. 


PROCESSIONS— 


not to be obstructed, 218. 


PROHIBITORY WORDS— 


in ordinance, how to be construed, 8. 


' PROPERTY HELD IN TRUST— 


how set forth in tax statement, 30. 


PROPERTY HELD ON CONSIGNMENT— 


how assessed, 35. 


PROPERTY TAKEN FROM PRISONER— 


disposition of, 273. 


PROPOGATION— 


use of animals for purposes of, 767. 


Index—References are to Sections. 


PROSTITUTION— 
keeping house of, 760. 
being inmate of house of, 760. 
leasing house for purpose of, 760. 
pandering to, 760. 


PROSTITUTES— 
plying of trade, 760. 
PROTEST— 
payment of taxes under, 638. 
voluntary payment of taxes under, not so deemed, 63. 
taxes paid, recovery of, 63. 
limitation of suit to recover taxes paid under, 68. 
specifying that proposed tax sale is void in part, 94, 95. 
PUBLICATION OF MUNICIPAL CODE— 
in book form, 4. 
PUBLICATION OF NOTICE— 
when taxes shall become delinquent, 60. 
of delinquent tax sale, 75. 
PUBLIC BATHS— 
regulations for conduct of, 447. 
prohibiting use by more than one person, 448. 
males and females using same room, 449. 
exception as to swimming tanks, 450. 
license to conduct public baths, 507. 


PUBLIC BUILDINGS ON PROPERTY— 


267 


interfering with appartus of municipal electric system, 138, 139. 


defacing by writing or drawing, etc., on or in, 136. 
PUBLIC GARDENS, PARKS OR RECREATION GROUNDS— 
licenses for, 506. 
PUBLIC HEALTH— 
registration of physicians and midwives, 331. 


physicians to report various diseases and births and deaths, 332. 


burial of persons dying from dangerous diseases, 333. 
keeping dead human bodies without permit, 334. 
removal of dead human bodies, 335. 


board of health authorized to post notices of certain contagious di- 


seases, 336. 
defacing or tearing down such notices, 337. 
unwholesome or diseased meats, 339. 
unwholesome or unsound vegetables, 340. 
keeping unwholesome food in room with good, 341. 
fly-proof covers for food products, 342. 
new receptacles for sale of fruit, 343. 
milk regulations, board of health in charge of, 345. 
permit necessary to vend milk, 346. 
application for such permit, 347. 
no cost for permit, 348. 
what allowable under permit, 349. 
necessity for display of license number of permit, 350. 
vending of impure, adulterated or unhealthy milk, 351. 
adulterated and unwholesome milk, defined, 352. 
carrying contaminating material on milk wagon, 353. 
right of board to inspect premises, 354. 
revocation of permit on failure to allow inspection, 354. 
care to be taken of milk cans or receptacles, 355. 
how cans to be cleaned, 356. 
removal of milk cans from places where diseases exist, 357, 
duty and right of board of health to inspect, 358, 359. 


268 Index—References are to Sections. 


right of board to take samples and how to be taken, 360. 
duty of dairy owner to report probability of impure milk, 361. 
interference with inspection, 362. 
sale of condensed milk, butter milk or sour milk, 363. 
sale of skimmed milk, 370. 
inspection of transported milk, 364. 
dairies to be kept in clean condition, 365. 
daily cleaning work in maintaining dairy, 366. 
necessity for animals and milkers to be in healthy condition, 367. 
cattle to be fed only wholesome food, 368, 369. 
dairy cattle not to be fed on swill, 369. 
to issue permits for maternity hospitals, 452. 
right to inspect maternity’ hospitals, 454. 
PUBLIC LAUNDRIES— 
limits of laundry districts, 437, 438. 
manner in which laundries to be constructed, 439. 
no one to sleep in laundry room, 440. 
manner in which clothes are to be dampened, 441. 
necessity to have proper sewer connections, 442. 
not to create a nuisance, 444. 
prohibiting laundry work in night time, 445. 


PUBLIC: MONUMENTS— 
removal of, 137. 
PUBLIC NUISANCES 
permitting poison oak to grow, 465. 
certain trees endangering sewers or sidewalks, 466. 
how trees to be removed, 467. 
distribution of poisonous drugs in public places, 468. — 
overhead poles and wires, Ords. Nos. 4 and 5 N. S. Appendix. 
PUBLIC PARKS AND PLACES— 
picking or injuring flowers or plants in, 131. 
walking or reclining on grass in, 132, 135. 
interfering with water hydrant in, 133. 
PUBLIC POUND— 
see Poundmaster. 
PUBLIC SCALES— 
licenses for, 530. 
PUBLIC VIEW— 
drunkenness in, 756. 
use of animals for propagation purposes in, 767. 
indecent exposure of person, 757. 
PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATION OF LICENSE LAW— 
not in lieu of tax, 499. 


PURCHASER AT TAX SALE— 
lien of, 82. 


RABIES— 
duty of custodian of dog suspected of, 372, 374. 
duty of health officer, 372. 
disposition of dogs suspected of, 373. 
duty of custodian of dog showing symptoms of, 374. 
duty of custodian of dog which has bitten any person, 875. . 
transportation of dogs from district in which rabies exist, 377. 
poundmaster’s fees where dogs reclaimed, 378. 
capture of dogs having rabies, Sidee 


RAILROAD TRACK WAY— 
excepted from acceptance of street, 107. 


Index—References are to Sections 269 


RAIN WATER— 
leaders, 709. 
RATE OF TAXATION— 
how and when determined, 56. 
when to be levied, 49. 
where not yet fixed is that of previous year, 68. 
RATES OF RAILWAY FARES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN— 
rates to be charged, 798. 
tickets for transportation, 799. 
pupils must secure certificate of attendance, 800. 
REAL PROPERTY— 
how to be described in tax statements, 30. 
RECEIPTS— 
for payment of personal property tax, 70. 
RECEPTACLES— 
for waste, 291. 
RECITALS— 
in tax deed, 87. 
RECKLESS DRIVING— 
of vehicles on public: streets, 230. 
REDEMPTION— 
from tax sale, within what time, 83. 
how redemption made, 83. 
amount necessary to redeem, 83. 
right to make partial redemption, 84. 
treasurer to report names of persons entitled to redemption money, 
85. 
fact of redemption noted in sale book, 86. 
where not redeemed, deed to be executed, 87. 
REDUCTION OF VALUATION— 
of assessment not made except on application, 51. 
REFRIGHERATORS— 
ice boxes, etc., not to be directly connected with drainage, 688. 
REFUND— 
of taxes illegally collected to be made by council, 90. 
REFUSAL OR NEGLECT TO RENDER TAX STATEMENT— 
to assessor, 34. 
REFUSE OR BRUSH— 
burning of, 300. 
REGULAR MEETINGS— 
of council, 5. 
REMOVAL— 
of public monuments, 137. 
of macadam or surface dressing of streets, 143. 
necessity to place deposit or bond to cover cost, 148, 145, 146. 
work under street superintendent, 144. 
to repair of street within one year, 144. 
of rejected and surplus material used in sidewalk construction, 158. 
of old sewers, 684. 
of poles and wires by Board of Electricity, Ords. Nos. 4 and 5, N. 
S. Appendix. 
REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS— 
along highways, 240. 
to obtain consent of certain property owners, 241. 
consent not necessary when not removed on street, 241. 
permit for removal and indemnity fund, 242. 
care and diligence required, 243. 


270 Index—References are to Sections. 


limiting the standing of such buildings, 244. 
prohibiting injury to other property, 245. 
obstruction of street car traffic by, 246. 
cutting wires or poles, 247. 

revocation of permit, 248. 

of partially burned buildings, 641. 


of dangerous buildings, walls, chimneys, or other structures, 641. 


REMOVED OR TRANSFERRED PROPERTY— 
when wilfull, how assessed, 40. 
REMOVING OR CONCEALING PROPERTY— 
effect on assessment, 40. 
RENDERING PLANT— 
for tallow or other fats, 308. 
REPAIR AND ALTHERATION— 
of wooden buildings, 642. 
REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT— 
of accepted streets, 105. 
REPAIRS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
REPEALING AND SAVING CLAUSE— 
of Code, 2. 
REPEAL OF ORDINANCE— 
effect on prior ordinances, 3. 
effect on punishment or penalty incurred, 3. 


REPRESENTATIVE CAPACITY— 
how property so held is assessed, 37. 


REPUBLICATION— 


of delinquent list which contained harmless omissions or errors, 92. 


RETAINING WALL— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


REVOCATION— 
causes for, of saloon license, 480. 


RIDER— 
of horse, wheel or motorcycle, 182. 

RIGHT OF WAY— 
vehicles traveling in same direction, 186, 187, 188, 190. 
vehicles traveling easterly or westerly, 193. 


fire and police departments, U. S. mail and emergency vehicles, 194. 


Are ES 
duty on approach of police or fire vehicles, 194. 


RIGHT TO PAY TAXBHS ON’ PARTICULAR LOT— 
or piece separate from whole assessment, 64. 
RIOTOUS LANGUAGE OR WORDS— 
use of, 754. 
ROAMING ABOUT THE STREETS— 
after midnight, 761. 
ROOFS— 
strength and pitch of, 578. 
RUBBISH— 
depositing on public streets and private premises, 117. 


RULE OF ROAD— 
when not overtaking or passing other vehicles, 186. 
for general rules, see Traffic and Travel. 


RULES OF BOARD OF BLECTRICITY— 
set out in detail, 728. 


Index—References are to Sections. 


SADDLE HORSES— 
regulations respecting use of on streets, 179. 


SALARIES— 

city clerk, 6. 

city attorney, 6. 

treasurer and ex-officio tax collector, 6. 

street superintendent, 6. 

city engineer, 16. 

fees and charges of city engineer, 17. 

chief of police, 7. 

detectives, 7. 

sergeants, 7. 

clerk of police office, 7. 

driver of police patrol, 7. 

patrolmen, 7. 

officers and employees of fire department, 8. 

chief engineer, 8. 

first assistant engineer, 8. 

second assistant engineer, 8. 

engineers of fire engines, 8. 

assistant engineers, 8. 

captains, 8. 

drivers, first class, 8. 

drivers, second class, 8. 

call captains of fire department, 8. 

truckmen and hosemen, 8. 

poundmaster, 9. 

to be paid in arrears for preceding month, 6. 
SALE— 

of real property for tax liens, 78. 
SALOON— 

business of, must be exclusive business, 478. 

distance to be from school, 477. 

sale of liquors generally. See Intoxicating Liquors. 
SAMPLE DISTRIBUTORS— 

licenes for, 516. 
SAND— 

test of, for building purposes, 571. 


SANITARIUM, HOSPITAL OR SANITORIUM— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
licenes for, 531. 


SANITARY REGULATIONS— OPN 
regulating accummulation and disposal of garbage, 385. 
dumpage ground for garbage, 386. 
garbage not to be deposited in Bay of San Francisco, 265. 
driving of garbage carts at certain Hours, 2207. 
maintenance of barns and stables, 387. 
keeping of horses, 388. 
duty to place manure under ground, 389. 
keeping manure in suitable receptacles, 390. 
exemption of livery stables, 391. 
maintenance of livery or boarding stables, 392. 
storage of more than one ton of manure, 393. 
separate offenses for each day, 394. 
area for each cow kept, 395, 396. 
limiting proximity of cows to residence, 397. 
keeping of swine, 398. 
keeping of chickens and other fowl, 399. 


271 


272 Index—References are to Sections. 


coops and enclosures to be sanitary, 400. 
disposition of dead animals, 401. 
keeping occupied premises connected with running water, 402. 
duty to flush plumbing pipes, 403. 
SAVING CLAUSHE— 
in municipal code, 2. 
SAW MILLS— 
within fire limits, 295. 
SCALES— 
licenses for, 530. 
SCHOOL— 
distance of saloon from, 477. 
SCHOOL CHILDREN— 
rates to be charged for street railway fares, 798. 
tickets for transportation, 799. 
pupils to secure certificates of attendance, 800. 
licenses for, 515. 
SCUTTLES— 
in roofs, 648. 
SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER— 
of fire department, salary of, 8. 
SECOND HAND DEALERS— 
see Pawnbrokers. 
SECOND ISTALLMENT OF TAXES— 
when delinquent, 62. 
SECRETARY OF CORPORATION— 
to make tax statement, 30. 
SEIZURE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY— 
to enforce collection of taxes, 67. 
SELLING CIGARETTES— 
to minors, 766. 
SEMI-POROUS TERRA COTTA FOR FIRE PROOFING— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 
SEPARATE LICHNSES— 
for.each place of business, 500. 
SEPARATE OFFENSE— 
each day’s violation of storage regulations of petroleum product, 329. 
each day’s violation of sanitary regulations, 394. 
each day’s violation of license law, 492. 
SERGEHEANTS— 
duty of each of the sergeants, 270. 
Salany 1OL iit 
SETTLEMENT— 
of auditor and tax collector, 78. 
SEVERAL CLAIMANTS OF LAND— 
how to be assessed, 46. 
SEWERS— 
duty to connect houses with, 250. 
maintenance of privy vault after construction of, 251. 
SCHOOLS OF DANCING 
by whom connections to be made, 252. 
necessity to apply for connections and deposit fee, 253. 
fees for connecting sewers, 254. 
how sewers to be constructed, 255. 
general specifications for, 256. 


Index—-References are to Sections. 273 


contractor to be responsible for, until acceptance, 256. 
buildings not to be connected with, until accepted, 256. 
how manholes to be constructed, 257. 

necessity for two Y branches, 258. 

construction of sewer connections, 259. 

nature of sand and cement to be used, 260. 

street superintendent to supervise, 261. 

removal and disposition of construction material, 262, 263. 
inspection of construction material, 263. 

maintenance of red light at sewer trenches, 264. 
precautions against accident, 264. 

deposition of dyes and acids into Oakland harbor, 266. 
connections for laundries, 442. 

removal of old, 684. 

sufficiency of, when two buildings on one lot, 685. 
connection of house with main sewers, 696. 


SHAVINGS— 
safeguarding of, 297. 


SHEDS— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 640. 
how to be constructed, 640. 


SHOCKING ADVERTISEMENTS— 
on bill boards, 747. 


SHOOTING GALLERY— 
licenses for, 532. 
when to be closed, 782. 


SHRUBS— 
in public places under control of street superintendent, 129. 


SIDEROOMS TO SALOONS— 
maintenance of, 483. 
SIDE-SHOWS— 
licenses for, 513. 
SIDEW ALKS— 
term sidewalk as used in article respecting traffic, defined, 181. 
crowds to be dispersed by police, 120. 
obstructions of, by boxes, barrels, etc., 176. 
spinning of tops on stone sidewalks, 1738. 
use of bicycles, tricycles and skates on, 175. 
throwing of hard substances on stone sidewalks, 174. 
maintaining wooden or unsafe awnings over, nya), Aee(ale 
respective altitude of awnings above, 172. 
mortar or concrete on, 113. 
rules governing placing of building material on, 114. 
removal of obstructions on, by street superintendent, 115. 
allowing tree branches to extend over, a yal 
injuring grass plots or borders along sidewalks, 135. 
establishing grade of, 149. 
general width of, 150. 
construction or repair of, 151. 
manner of construction, 152. 
to cease construction work on request of street superintendent, 158. 
specifications for cement ones, 154, 155, 166. 
to be constructed under direction of street superintendent, 157. 
removal of rejected and surplus materials, 158. 
warning signals during construction, 159. 
character of superintendents of construction to be employed by con- 
tractor, 160. 
kind of cement to be used in construction, 161. 


274 


Index—References are to Sections. 


kind of sand, 162. 

kind of broken stone, 163. 

kind of concrete, 164. 

character of surface layer, 165. 

extent of excavation for concrete, 166. 

general manner of construction, 167. 

strength of, 579. 

bids for those constructed by city, 168. 

to warn from danger in sidewalk construction, 159. 


SKATES AND BICYCLES— 


on stone sidewalks, 175. 


SKATING RINKS— 


licenses for, 533. 


SKIMMED MILK— 


sale of, 370. 


SLAUGHTER HOUSE— 


maintenance of, 303. 


SLING SHOTS— 


use of, 779. 


SMOKE HOUSES— 


within fire limits, 646. 


SMOKING— 


where combustibles are stored, 304. 
of opium, 759. 


SMOKE PIPES— 


construction of, 614. 


SNIPE— 


not allowed to be placed, except on bill board, 749. 


SOIL AND WASTE PIPES— 


how to be constructed, 674, 675, 676. 


SOIL PIPES— 


defined, 700. 


SPARRING OR BOXING SHOWS— 


licenses for, 536. 


SOLICITORS— 


licenses for, 534. 


SOLID BRIDGING— 


over joists and partitions, 594. 


SOLVENT CREDITS— 


to be stated in tax statements, 30. 


SOUNDING GONG— 


at street crossings, 235. 


SOUR MILK— 


sale of, 368. 


SPEED LIMIT— 


of electric cars, 234. 
as to vehicles generally. See Traffic and Travel. 


SPINNING TOPS— 


on stone sidewalks, 173. 


Index—References are to Sections. 275 


SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION— 
disposition of articles liable to, 291. 


SPRING GUNS— 
maintenance of, 779. 


STALLIONS— 
use of, for purposes of propagation, 767. 


STANDING STREET CARS— 
vehicles not to drive within four feet of, 203. 


STANDPIPES— 
construction of, 625. 


STATE LAW— 
application of, to official bonds, 20. 
adoption of Sec. 3627 Pol. Code relative to assessments, 28. 


STATEMENT OF TAXABLE PROPERTY— 
what to contain, 30. 


STATE STATUTES— 
adoption of Secs. 3791-3796 Pol. Code regarding taxation, 67. 
title 9, part 3, Pol. Code adopted, 102. 


STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS— 
to suit to recover taxes paid under protest, 63. 


STEAM BOILERS— 
furnaces, erection of, 622. 


STEAM PIPES— 
proximity to wood, 620. 


STEEL CUPOLA CHIMEYS— 
construction of, 617. 


STOLEN OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY— 
disposition when in custody of police, 272, 273, 274. 
sale of unclaimed property by city treasurer, 275. 
right to litigate claim to, 278. 


STOPPING OF CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDING— 
by council or building inspector, 649. 


STOPPING VEHICLES— 
on streets when so directed by police, 231. 


STORAGE— 
of gun powder, 293. 


STORY— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


STOVE PIPES— 
duty, when unsafe, 615. 


STREET CARS— 
duty of conductors on approach of police or fire department vehicles. 
195. 
speed limit of electric cars, 234. 
motormen to sound gong at street crossings, 235. 
obstruction of traffic by moving building in street, 246. 
cutting of wires in removing building, 247. 
not affected by traffic article, 183. 


276 Index—Reterences are to Sections 


STREET CROSSINGS— 
how to be constructed, 105. 
speed at, in driving across, 199. 
motorman to sound gong at, 235. 
cars or trains not to block, 236. 


STREET GUIDES— 
injuring or interfering with, 119. 
STREET NUMBERS— 
how to be determined for new buildings, 557. 
STREET OR STEAM CAR ADVERTISERS— 
licenses for, 508. 


STREETS— 

what constitutes a public street, 103. 

term street.includes what, 3. 

dedication of, 103. 

What are declared as accepted as such, 108. 

represented on map made by Alfred Bannister, 103. 

ascertainment of datum line, 104. 

gutters and curbs, 104. 

requirements for acceptance, 106. 

excepting of railroad trackway and curbing, 107. 

partial or conditional acceptance, 108. 

repair and improvement of accepted streets, 105. 

how street crossings to be constructed, 105. 

necessity for permit to place building material and other obstructions 
on, 109. 

deposit required as guarantee, 110. 

failure of permittee to remove debris, 111. 

rules governing placing of building material Ons: Was 

removal of macadam or surface dressing and laying of pipes in, 143. 

depositing money or executing bond to cover cost of 148, 145, 146. 

such removal work under street superintendent, 144. 

replacement guaranteed for one year, 144. 

return of indemnity deposit, 145. 

regulating laying of gas or water pipes, 147. 

removal of buildings along, 240. 

limiting standing of buildings on, 244. 

mortar or concrete on, 113. 

maintaining barbed wire fences along, 126. - 

obedience to order requiring removal of obstructions, 112. 

removal of obstructions by street superintendent, i es Be Bia a 15 

recovery of material so removed, 116. 

burning of rubbish on, 302. 

depositing broken glass, rubbish, etc., in, 117. 

peddlers’ carts not to stand on, 224. 

hanging of banners on or over, 127. 

allowing tree branches to extend on, 121. 

allowing animals or fowls to run One: 

removing or injuring ornamental trees or tree boxes, 128. 

_maintaining gardens in, 127. 

dispersing crowds on by police, 120. 

driving loose animals on, 125. 

feeding of horses on streets, 210. 

drayage vehicles standing. on, 211. 

driving unbroken or dangerous horses on, 212, 

owner to repair property causing danger to person using street, 
141, 1.42. 

injuring or interfering with street guides, 119. 

for matter relating to sewers, see Sewers. 


Index—References are to Sections. 


STREET SUPERINTENDENT— 
salary of, 6. 
to issue permit to place building material on street, 109. 
control of trees and shrubs in public places, 129. 
to issue permits to prune or cut trees in streets, 130. 
duty on receiving unclaimed property, 274. 
to notify owner to repair property causing danger, 141. 


STREET WALKERS— 
punishment of, 761. 


STRENGTH— 
of beams and girders, 580. 


STRENG'TH— 
and pitch of roofs, 578. 
of floors, 577. 
of sidewalks, 579. 


STRUCTURES— 
dangerous, to be safe guarded, 298. 
duty of fire marshal in regard to, 298. 


STUDDING— 
size of; 591. 


SUIT— 


statute of limitation in suit to recover taxes paid under protest, 


such suit to be commenced in the Superior Court, 63. 


SUPERINTENDENT OF DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICITY— 
in charge of inspection of electrical work, 720, 723. 


SUPERIOR COURT— 
suit to recover protested taxes to be commenced in, 63. 


SURETIES ON ASSESSOR’S BOND— 
liability of, 47, 438. 


SURVEYORS’ MONUMENTS— 
removal of public monuments, 137. . 
how removal done when necessary, 137. 


SWILL MILK— 
sale of milk produced from such food, 369. 


SWINE— 
Keeping of, 398. 


SWORN STATEMENT OF TAX— 
when dependent on amount of business, 544. 


TALLOW OR FAT RENDERING PLANTS— 
maintenance of, 303. 


TANDEM— 
driving vehicles in such manner, 206. 


TAXABLE IMPROVEMENTS UPON EXEMPTED LAND— 
how assessed, 42. 


TAX— 
as an execution duly levied, 57. 
as a judgment and lien, 57. 


TAX COLLECTOR— 
duty to give receipt and form thereof, 61. 


277 


63. 


to make notation where taxes on particular lot paid separately from 


whole assessement, 64. 


278 Index—References are to Sections. 


to compare delinquent list with auditor, 71. 

to make oath to tax payments made, 72. 

settlement with auditor, 73. 

oath to correctness of delinquent list, 74. 

to collect cost of publication of delinquent tax list. 77. 
amount to be collected, 77. 

to sign certificates of sale under tax sales, 81. 

to execute deed where property not redeemed, 87. 


when directed by council to sell property purchased by city at tax 


sale, 88. 
procedure to be followed by him, 88. 
amount for which to be sold, 88. 
form of deed to be given, 88. 


to collect from purchaser certain amounts for tax or other deeds, 89. 


duty where property assessed twice, 91. 
to collect only tax justly due where property assessed twice, 91. 
duty where protest filed stating proposed tax sale void, 95. 


TAX EXEMPTION— 
how improvements on tax exempted lands are assessed, 42. 


TAX ES— 
how amount of taxes ascertained where rate not yet fixed, 68. 
on claim to or right to possession land, when due and payable, 66. 
on unsecured personal property, how collected, 66. 
adoption of title IX, part III, Pol. Code, 102. 
to render statement of taxable property to assessor, 30, 32, 38, 34. 
arbitrary assessment for failure to render statement, 34. 
settlement of auditor and tax collector, 73. 
delinquent taxes, how collected, 75. 
manner of publication of delinquent list, 75. 


filing copy of delinquent list with county recorder and city clerk, 76. 


collection of costs of publication of delinquent tax list, 77. 
sale for delinquent taxes, how conducted, 79. 

items to be charged against property sold, 79. 

effect where no purchasers at delinquent tax sale, 79. 


effect where tax collector discoveres irregularities before tax sale, 


92. 
necessity to pay for property struck off before following day, 80. 
description of land sold at tax sale to be entered, 81. 
sale of real property for tax lien, 78. 
how sale conducted, 78. 
right to pay taxes and costs on day of sale, 79. 
certificates of sale, 81. 
certificate of sale transfers lien of city, 82. 
form and effect of tax deed, 87. 


,deed to be executed by tax collector where property not redeemed, 


87. 
immateriality of misnomer of owner on tax sale, 93. 
or other mistake, 93. 
sale of property purchased by city at tax sale, 88. 
refund of taxes illegally collected, 90. 
payment of under protest, 63. 
effect of assessment valid and void in part, 94. 
protest of owner stating void in part, 94, 95. 
suit to recover taxes paid under protest, 63. 
limitations applicable to suit, 63. 
redemption from tax sale, 83, 82. 
amount necessary to redeem, 83. 
right to make partial redemption, 84. 
see also matter under Assessments and Redemption. 


Index—-References are to Sections. 279 


TAX LIEN— 
attaches as of first Monday in March, 57. 
not removed until payment or sale of property therefor, 57. 


TAX ON REAL PROPERTY— 
a lien thereon, 57. 


TAX ON PERSONAL PROPERTY— 
a lien on real property of owner, 57. 


TAX RHECEIPTS— 
and form thereof, 61. 


TAX SHIRKERS— 
property escaping from last year’s assessement, how to be assessed, 
41. 


TAX STATEMENTS— 
cashier of corporation, to make, 30. 


THLEGRAPH WIRES— 
not to be cut.or injured, 783. 
to be placed underground. See Hlectric Overhead Wires. 


TELEPHONE WIRES— 
to be placed under ground. See Hlectric Overhead Wires. 


TEMPORARY PERMIT— 
to use electricity before final inspection, 723. 


TENANT— 
includes whom, 3. 


TENEMENT HOUSE— 
“as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


TENSILE TESTS— 
of Portland cement, 573. 


TERRA COTTA— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


TESTING OF PLUMBING SYSTEM— 
manner of, 712. 


THEATRES, OPERA HOUSES AND OTHER PLACES OF AMUSEMENT 
necessity to conform to building ordinances, 651. 
concrete and masonry construction, exceptions, 652. 
construction of walls separating stage from auditorium, 653. 
construction of stairs, 654. 
necessity for frontage, 655. 
exits and how placed, 655. 
interiors to metal lined or metal lathed, 656. 
construction of aisles, 657. 
regulations as to seats, 658. 
obstructions to aisles or exits, 659. 
fire protection, water supply, 660. 
construction of moving picture show buildings, 651. 
construction of moving picture operator’s box, 661, 
rules of board of police and fire commissioners, 662. 
licenes for, 529. 
for matter relating to plumbing. See Plumbing Regulations, 


THICKNESS— 
of party walls, 631. 


THICKESS OF WALL— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


280 Index—References are to Sections. 


THREATS TO CONSTRUCT CERTAIN BUILDINGS— 
as an offence, 786. 


TIME— 
for assessing personal property, 65. 
for assessing real property, 29. 
of publication of delinquent list of taxes, ioe 
when real property to be sold for tax lien, 78. 
within which to redeem from tax sale, 83. 


TIRES 
width of vehicle, 228. 


TOILETS— 
defacement of public buildings or property, 136. 


TORPEDOES— 
may be discharged, 781. 


TOWEL FURNISHERS— 
licenses for, 538. 


TRAFFIC AND TRAVEL— 

terms vehicle, horse, sidewalk and driver as used, defined, 179, 180, 
181 and 182. 

inapplicability to street cars, 183. 

limits of traffic districts, 184, 185. 

general rule of the road, 186. 

driver overtaking another, 187. 

driver about to be passed or overtaken, 188. 

driver wishing to stop or change course, 189. 

right of way of fire and police departments, U. S. mail and emer- 
gency vehicles, 194. ‘ 

horses or vehicles not to be near fire hydrant, 196. 

time allowed vehicles to be backed up to curb, 197. 

driver turning to right into another street, 190. 

driver turning to left into another street, 191. 

driver starting or turning from curb, 192. 

right of way of vehicles traveling easterly or westerly, 193. 

necessity to be loading or unloading when backed up to curb, 198. 

speed limit over crossings and around corners, 199. 

on approach of car or train to station, 204. 

stopping vehicles in street, 201. 

duty not to drive on sidewalks, 202. 

driving near standing street car, 203. 

general speed limit, 204. 

leaving horses or vehicles alone on street, 205, 

driving vehicles tandem, 206. 

garbage vehicles at certain times, 207. 

leaving horses unattended on street, 208. 

hitching horses to shade trees, lamp posts, etc., 209. 

feeding of horses on street, 210. 

drayage vehicles standing on streets, 211. 

driving unbroken or dangerous horses on streets, 212. 

driving across newly laid pavements, 213. 

hindering or delaying street cars, 214. 

open mufflers on automobiles, etc., 215. 

unattended motor vehicles, 216. 

age, discretion and condition of person left in charge of vehicle, 217. 

obstructing processions, 218. 

riding on rear end of vehicle, 219. 

automobiles, motor cycles and bicycles to maintain signals or gongs, 
220. 


Index—-References are to Sections. 281 


motor vehicles to display front and rear lights, 221. 

bicycles, motor cycles and horse drawn vehicles to display lights. 
222. 

necessity for permit to allow vehicles to stand on streets, 223. 

use of vehicles used for vending, 224. 

vehicles transporting crude oil, 225. 

vehicles transporting sand, gravel or liquid substances, 226, 

limiting weight of load, 227. 

width of vehicle tires, 228. 

driving more than two vehicles, 229. 

driving vehicles in reckless or dangerous manner, 230. 

neglecting or refusing to stop when directed, 231. 

duty of police to enforce traffic article, 232. 

violation constitutes a misdemeanor, 238. 

speed limit of electric cars, 234. 

motorman to sound gong at crossings, 235. 

cars or train not to block crossings, 236. 

trespassing on cars or trains, 237. 

minors not to get on or off moving cars, 238. 


TRAFFIC DISTRICTS— 
limits of, 184, 185. 


TRAIN JUMPING— 
prohibited, 763. 


TRANSFERABILITY OF LIQUOR LICENSES— 
how done, 472. 


TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES— 
of various kinds, licenses for, 541. 


TRANSPORTED MILK— 
inspection and sale of, 364. 


TREASURER— 
salary of, 6. 
sale by him of property in his possession, 275. 
duty to sell at auction, 276. ; 
disposition of proceeds of sale, Puc 
right of claimant of property, 278. 
right to deduct costs and charges, 279. 
to give redemptioner from tax sale a certificate, 83. 
to report persons entitled to redemption money, 85. 


TREASURY— 
money received as penalty for failure to give satisfaction to as- 


sessor to be paid in, 33. 


TREES— 
allowing branches of to extend over street or sidewalk, 121. 
injuring or removing ornamental trees on streets or public places, 
123. 
and shrubs in public places under control of street superintendent, 


129. 
as public nuisances, 466. 


TRESPASSING— 
upon railroad cars, locomotives or trains,’ 237. 
animals or fowls, 407. 


TRICYCLES AND SKATES— 
on stone sidewalks, 175. 


TRUCKMEN AND HOSEMEN— 
of fire department, salary of, 8. 


282 Index——References are to Sections. 


TRUSTHE— 
property held by, how assessed, 37. 


TRUST PROPERTY— 
to be shown in tax statements, 30. 


TUBERCULOSIS— 

animals afflicted with, 381. 

board of health authorized to destroy such animals, 383. 
UNAUTHORIZED POSTING OF ADVERTISEMENTS— 

on bill boards, not allowed, 749. 
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY— 


disposition of by police and street superintendent, 274. 
sale of, by city treasurer, 275, 276. 
rights of claimant, 278: 


UNCONSTITUTIONALITY— 
of part of Code not to affect balance, 3. 


UNDERGROUND POLES AND TROLLY WIRES— 
see Electric Railways. 


UNDERPINNING— 
of buildings, 592. 


UNDERTAKERS OR EMBALMERS— 
licenses for, 539. 


UNDISTRIBUTED OR UNPARTITIONED PROPERTY OF ESTATH— 
how assessed, 39. 


UNFHNCED LOT— 
allowing animals or fowls in, 122. 
UNGUARDED CURBS— 
driving’ over, 177. 
UNITED STATES MAIIL-— 
right of way of vehicles carrying, on streets, 194. 
UNKNOWN CLAIMANTS— 


of property, how assessed, 35, 36. 


UNKNOWN OR ABSENT OWNERS— 
how assessed, 35, 36. 


UNOCCUPIED BUILDINGS— 
safeguarding of, 299. 


UNPARTITIONED PROPERTY— 
of deceased persons, how assessed, 39. 


UNSAFE AWNINGS— 
maintaining them, 171. 


UNSAFE FENCES— 
duty to remove, 457. 


UNSAFE STRUCTURES AND BUILDINGS— 
to be safeguarded, 298. 
nature of notice by fire marshal, 298. 
see also matter under Weed Ordinance. 


UNSANITARY CONDITION OF PLUMBING— 
necessity to correct, 692. 


UNSECURED PERSONAL PROPERTY— 
taxes, when due, 62. 


Index—References are to Sections. 283 


UNUSECURED DEBTS— 
statement of in connection with tax assessments, 30. 


UNUSED FORMS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX RECEIPTS— 
to be returned by assessor, 70. 


UNWHOLESOME FOODS— 
see Public Health. 


UPPER ROOMS— 
to saloons, 488. 


URINALS OR WATER CLOSETS— 
how to be constructed, 598, 691. 


USE OF ANIMALS— 
for purposes of propogation, 767. 


USE OF PUBLIC STREETS— 
on offer of owner, effect of, 1038. 


USE OF RIOTOUS LANGUAGH— 
or words, prohibited, 754. 


USING WATER— 
for irrigation after fire alarm, 314. 


UTTERING— 
obscene language prohibited, 752. 


VACUUM CLEANERS— 
licenses for, 512. 
licenses for such vehicles, 6541. 


VALUABLES— 
to be described in tax statements, 30. 


VEHICLE— 
term defined as used in article respecting traffic, 179. 


riding on rear end, 219. 
reckless or dangerous driving of on streets, 230. 


VANDALISM— 
injuring grass plots or borders along sidewalks, 135. 
defacing public buildings or property, 136. 
affixing marks, pictures or writing in public buildings, 136. 


VEGETABLES, GROW THS— 
see Weed Ordinance. 


VENDING CARTS— 
rules respecting, 224. 


VENDING MILK— 
issuance of permit for, 346. 
VENEERED WALLS— 
construction of, 589. 


VENT PIPES— 
how to be constructed, 708. 


VETERINARY HOSPITALS— 
licenses for, 540. 


VETERINARY SURGEONS— 
to report contagious diseases, 380. 


VIOLATION OF CODE— 
place of imprisonment, 792. 
violation of any provision a misdemeanor, 793. 


284 Index—-References are to Sections. 


VIOLATIONT OR LAW 
in construction of building, effect of occupation, 647. 


VOLUNTARY PAYMENT— 

payment of taxes under protest not deemed, 63. 
WALL ANCHORS— 

construction of, 632. 
WALLS— 

thickness of foundation walls, 590. 

for various sized buildings, 590. 


of wood frame buildings, 588. 
veneered, 589. 


WALKING ON GRASS— 


or reclining on in public places, 132. 


WAREHOUSE— 
as used in building regulations, defined, 568. 


WARE HOUSEMEN— 
licenses for, 542. 


WARNING SIGNALS— 
to be used in sidewalk construction, 159. 


WASTE MATERIAL— 
disposition of, 291. 


WASTE PIPES— 


defined, 699. 
of plumbing connections, 674, 677. 
WATER— 


to keep occupied houses connected with running, 402. 
use of for irrigation after fire alarm, 314. 


WATER CLOSETS OR URINALS— 
how to be construeted, 598. 
Vent pIpes Tote 10% 
plug, pan or hopper eonstruction, 711. 
for tenements, flats or stores, 690. 
located in yards, 695. 
of wood, 639. 


WATER SERVICE COMPANIES— : 
licenses for, 548a. 
WEAPONS— 


carrying of concealed, 778. 


WEED ORDINANCE— 
obstruction of sidewalks by weeds, grass and other vegetable 
growths, 456. 
street superintendent to notify owner to remove weeds, etc., 457. 
how notice to be given, 458. 
right to appeal from order of street superintendent, 459, 462. 
right to remove weeds in absence of appeal, 460. 
record book of property affected to be Kept, 461. 
appeal from act of superintendent in removing weeds, 462. 
city council to pass on appeal, 462. 
cost of removal as lien on property, 463. 
procedure to fix lien, 464. 


W EIGHT— 
equal distribution of, on floors, 581. 


Index—References are to Sections 285 


WEIGHT OF LOADS— 
limiting carrying on street, 227. 


W EIGHT— 
to be carried by frame buildings, 586. 


WELLS— 
construction of light, 638. 


W HARFINGERS— 
licenses for, 543. 


W HISTLES— 
improper use of police, 776. 


WILFULLY CONCEALED— 
removed or transferred property, how assessed, 40. 


WILFUL NEGLECT— 
or failure of assessor to assess, his liability on his bond, 48. 


WIRES— 
cutting of, on moving building along street, 247. 
city electrician to be notified when to be cut for moving building, 
247. 


WOODEN AWNINGS— 
maintaining over sidewalk, 170. 


WOOD FRAME BUILDING— 
defined, 582, 583. 


WORDS IN CODE— 
how to be construed, 8. 


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